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

Christoph Lameter
2009-12-16T16:28:20Z

On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Andi Kleen wrote:

> > Do you have alternative recommendation rather than wrapping all accesses by
> > special functions ?
>
> Work out what changes need to be done for ranged mmap locks and do them all
> in one pass.

Locking ranges is already possible through the split ptlock and
could be enhanced through placing locks in the vma structures.

That does nothing solve the basic locking issues of mmap_sem. We need
Kame-sans abstraction layer. A vma based lock or a ptlock still needs to
ensure that the mm struct does not vanish while the lock is held.