Re: [PATCH v2] mm/vma: avoid spurious write locks when mm->mm_lock_seq overflows
From: Jose A. Perez de Azpillaga
Date: Fri Oct 16 2026 - 08:20:10 EST
On 10/16/26 1:34 PM, Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) wrote:
> So far the assumption has been that mm->mm_lock_seq overflow is benign,
> resulting only in readers spuriously falling back to the mmap lock, however
> it turns out that this was an unsafe assumption.
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LGTM :) and also tested on qemu so:
Reviewed-by: Jose A. Perez de Azpillaga <azpijr@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Jose A. Perez de Azpillaga <azpijr@xxxxxxxxx>
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cheers,
jose a. p-a