linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 0/4] Replace mmap

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Message-Id: <87628c87-d320-87e7-5076-b26432a72a0f@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:   Thu, 20 Apr 2017 16:39:32 +0200
From:   Laurent Dufour <ldufour@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>,
        haren@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
        khandual@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, Paul.McKenney@...ibm.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/4] Replace mmap_sem by a range lock

On 20/04/2017 15:33, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 02:18:23PM +0200, Laurent Dufour wrote:
>> Following the series pushed by Davidlohr Bueso based on the Jan Kara's
>> work [1] which introduces range locks, this series implements the
>> first step of the attempt to replace the mmap_sem by a range lock.
> 
> Have you previously documented attempts to replace the mmap_sem by an
> existing lock type before introducing a new (and frankly weird) lock?

No :/

> My initial question is "Why not use RCU for this?" -- the rxrpc code
> uses an rbtree protected by RCU.

I'm also working on forward-porting work done by Peter Zijlstra :

https://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=141384492326748

I'll send a series on top 4.10 soon.