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On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 03:02:55PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:

> We also talked about moving x86 to always RCU-free page tables in
> order to make accessing /proc/$pid/smaps lockless.  I believe Michel
> is going to take a swing at this project.

Shouldn't be too controversial I think -- effectively everybody already
has it enabled because everybody builds with KVM enabled.