linux-kernel - [PATCH -v2 0/5] always lock the root anon

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Date:	Wed, 26 May 2010 11:24:03 -0400
From:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>, Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@...com>
Subject: [PATCH -v2 0/5] always lock the root anon_vma

On Wed, 26 May 2010 00:00:15 -0400
Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com> wrote:
> On 05/13/2010 05:09 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> > I'm not very confident in merging all these onto the current MM pile.
> 
> Blah.  I thought I just did that (and wondered why it was
> so easy), and then I saw that the MMOTM git tree is old
> and does not have the COMPACTION code :(
> 
> On to doing this thing again :/

Andrew, here are the patches to always lock the root anon_vma,
ported to the latest -mm tree.

These patches implement Linus's idea of always locking the root
anon_vma and contain all the fixes and improvements suggested 
by Andrea.

This should fix the last bits of the anon_vma locking.

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