> Does anybody see any reason why this doesn't work totally without the
> lock?
We'll need protection from the swapout code. It would be
embarassing if the page fault handler would run for one
mm while kswapd was holding the page_table_lock for another
mm.
I'm not sure how the page_table_share_lock is supposed
to fix that one, though.
regards,
Rik
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