Re: [bkpatch] do_mmap cleanup

[Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 12:08:18PM +0000, Pavel Machek wrote:
> 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?

In generic code, I'd hope not.

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