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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 04/20] mm: VMA sequence count
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On 14/09/2017 11:11, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> On (09/14/17 10:58), Laurent Dufour wrote:
> [..]
>> That's right, but here this is the  sequence counter mm->mm_seq, not the
>> vm_seq one.
> 
> d'oh... you are right.

So I'm doubting about the probability of a deadlock here, but I don't like
to see lockdep complaining. Is there an easy way to make it happy ?