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Date:   Mon, 20 Apr 2020 12:48:13 -0700
From:   Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
To:     Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 01/10] mmap locking API: initial implementation as
 rwsem wrappers
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On Tue, 14 Apr 2020, Michel Lespinasse wrote:

>This change wraps the existing mmap_sem related rwsem calls into a new
>mmap locking API. There are two justifications for the new API:
>
>- At first, it provides an easy hooking point to instrument mmap_sem
>  locking latencies independently of any other rwsems.
>
>- In the future, it may be a starting point for replacing the rwsem
>  implementation with a different one, such as range locks.
>
>Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
>Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>

With one observation below.

>+static inline void mmap_downgrade_write_lock(struct mm_struct *mm)
>+{
>+	downgrade_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
>+}

Shouldn't this really be just mmap_downgrade_write()? In locking
normally don't add the _lock at the end as it implies the operation
of acquiring the lock.

Thanks,
Davidlohr