Does anybody see why this wouldn't be required? One day long ago fork() and vmscan both ran under the big lock. Those days are no more, and this now needs locking. Later, David S. Miller davem@redhat.com -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/