On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> This assumes that no other heavyweight process will try to modify this
> single-threaded process's mm. I don't _think_ that happens anywhere, does
> it? access_process_vm() is the only case I can think of,
"Modify" in the sense of fault into.
Yes, access_process_vm() is all I can think of too.
> and it does down_read(other process's mmap_sem).
If there were anything else, it'd have to do so too (if not down_write).
I too like NOPAGE_RETRY: as you've both observed, it can help to solve
several different problems.
Hugh
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