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On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 19:00 +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> 
> Also. This is called under down_read(mmap_sem), can't we race with
> access_process_vm() modifying the same memory?

Shouldn't matter COW and similar things are serialized using the pte
lock.
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