Re: [bkpatch] do_mmap cleanup

Pavel Machek (pavel@suse.cz)
Mon, 11 Mar 2002 12:08:18 +0000


Hi!

> Below is a vm cleanup that can be pulled from bk://bcrlbits.bk.net/vm-2.5 .
> The bulk of the patch is moving the down/up_write on mmap_sem into do_mmap
> and removing that from all the callers. The patch also includes a fix for
> do_mmap which caused mapping of the last page in the address space to fail.

Was not that a workaround for CPU bugs?
Pavel

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