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From:   Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Date:   Fri, 14 Aug 2020 01:30:39 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mmap locking API: add mmap_lock_is_contended()
To:     Chinwen Chang <chinwen.chang@mediatek.com>
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On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 7:14 PM Chinwen Chang
<chinwen.chang@mediatek.com> wrote:
>
> Add new API to query if someone wants to acquire mmap_lock
> for write attempts.
>
> Using this instead of rwsem_is_contended makes it more tolerant
> of future changes to the lock type.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chinwen Chang <chinwen.chang@mediatek.com>

Acked-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>