linux-kernel - Re: missing madvise functionality

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Date:	Tue, 3 Apr 2007 19:28:41 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jakub Jelinek <jakub@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: missing madvise functionality

On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 10:20:02AM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Why do you need a lock for that? I don't see any problem with
> > two threads doing that in parallel. The kernel would
> > serialize it internally and one would fail, but that shouldn't
> > be a problem. 
> 
> There is no lock at all at userlevel.  I'm talking about locks in the
> kernel.

mmap_sem? Your new operation wouldn't solve that neither.

There were some proposals to fix mmap_sem (it's a big issue
for futexes too) but they're are quite involved.

-Andi
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