[PATCH 94/94] mm: Move mas locking outside of munmap() path.

Liam Howlett liam.howlett at oracle.com
Mon May 3 17:05:09 BST 2021


* Michel Lespinasse <michel at lespinasse.org> [210501 02:13]:
> On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 03:36:32PM +0000, Liam Howlett wrote:
> > Now that there is a split variant that allows splitting to use a maple state,
> > move the locks to a more logical position.
> 
> In this patch set, is the maple tree lock ever held outside of code
> sections already protected by the mmap write lock ?


No, the maple tree lock is a currently a subset of the mmap write lock.

Thanks,
Liam


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