Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: change mmap_sem over to the scalable rw_mutex

On Fri, 11 May 2007 15:15:43 +0200 Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> wrote:

> -	down_write(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
> +	rw_mutex_write_lock(&current->mm->mmap_lock);

y'know, this is such an important lock and people have had such problems
with it and so many different schemes and ideas have popped up that I'm
kinda thinking that we should wrap it:

	write_lock_mm(struct mm_struct *mm);
	write_unlock_mm(struct mm_struct *mm);
	read_lock_mm(struct mm_struct *mm);
	read_unlock_mm(struct mm_struct *mm);

so that further experimentations become easier?
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