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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 22:01:15 +0000
Subject: Re: strange exit paths for do_sparc64_fault?
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On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 13:27:49 -0500
Ed L Cashin <ecashin@uga.edu> wrote:

> Is there a situation where the mmap_sem is taken on entering
> do_sparc64_fault but released outside of do_sparc64_fault?

Yes, if the process dies due to a fatal fault and thus invokes
do_exit() to kill the process, it will never return back into
do_sparc64_fault() if that occurs.