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Re: [bkpatch] do_mmap cleanup

To: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [bkpatch] do_mmap cleanup
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 12:08:18 +0000
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, linux-mm@kvack.org
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Sender: Rik van Riel <riel@nl.linux.org>

Hi!

> Below is a vm cleanup that can be pulled from bk://bcrlbits.bk.net/vm-2.5 .
> The bulk of the patch is moving the down/up_write on mmap_sem into do_mmap 
> and removing that from all the callers.  The patch also includes a fix for 
> do_mmap which caused mapping of the last page in the address space to fail.

Was not that a workaround for CPU bugs?
									Pavel

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