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From: Mark Hahn <hahn@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm->rss is modified without page_table_lock held
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> The following patch moves the page_table_lock in mm/* to cover the
> modification of mm->rss in 240-test12-pre7. It was inspired by a 

can't we just change rss to count pages? 
or are we worried about rss's over ~16 TB?

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