Memory management locking
Memory management locking
Posted Apr 14, 2014 2:40 UTC (Mon) by kmeyer (subscriber, #50720)In reply to: Memory management locking by Marvin
Parent article: Memory management locking
I think the only initiation that would need to wait for mmap_sem to drop is file contents backed by filesystems, i.e. not MAP_ANONYMOUS mappings. Maybe you zero the memory first before dropping mmap_sem in either case?