From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756902Ab0EZTms (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 May 2010 15:42:48 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:21745 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756873Ab0EZTmq (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 May 2010 15:42:46 -0400 Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 15:38:19 -0400 From: Rik van Riel To: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Mel Gorman , Andrea Arcangeli , Minchan Kim , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Lee Schermerhorn Subject: [PATCH -v3 0/5] always lock the root anon_vma Message-ID: <20100526153819.6e5cec0d@annuminas.surriel.com> Organization: Red Hat, Inc. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrew, here are the patches to always lock the root anon_vma, ported to the latest -mm tree. These patches implement Linus's idea of always locking the root anon_vma and contain all the fixes and improvements suggested by Andrea. This should fix the last bits of the anon_vma locking. v3 is identical to v2, except I gathered up the Acked-by:s that were on list already. Patches 4 and 5 still need some reviewing and acks...