From: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
To: Yangtao Li <tiny.windzz@gmail.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, mhocko@suse.com,
dan.j.williams@intel.com, linux@dominikbrodowski.net,
dave.hansen@linux.intel.com, dwmw@amazon.co.uk,
mhocko@kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: mmap: remove verify_mm_writelocked()
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2018 14:20:22 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1811141420110.212061@chino.kir.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181108174856.10811-1-tiny.windzz@gmail.com>
On Thu, 8 Nov 2018, Yangtao Li wrote:
> We should get rid of this function. It no longer serves its purpose.This
> is a historical artifact from 2005 where do_brk was called outside of
> the core mm.We do have a proper abstraction in vm_brk_flags and that one
> does the locking properly.So there is no need to use this function.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yangtao Li <tiny.windzz@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-14 22:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-08 17:48 Yangtao Li
2018-11-08 17:53 ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-14 22:20 ` David Rientjes [this message]
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