Re: [mm][RFC][PATCH 0/11] mm accessor updates.

Peter Zijlstra
2009-12-17T20:14:50Z

On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 13:56 -0600, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> > mmap_sem is a nasty lock, handlings lots of different things.
>
> That is why I think that the accessors are a good first step.

They're not, they're daft, they operate on a global resource mm_struct,
that's the whole problem, giving it a different name isn't going to
solve anything.