On Wed, 12 Aug 2015 22:52:44 -0700 Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> Looking at that mm/vmalloc.c file, the locking is pretty odd. It looks > pretty strange in setup_vmalloc_vm(), for example. If that newly > allocated "va" that we haven't even exposed to anybody yet has its > address or size changed, we're screwed in so many ways. > > I get the feeling this file should be rewritten. But that's not going > to happen. Nick Piggin started doing a rewrite in 2008 but it was never completed (https://lwn.net/Articles/285341/). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
