https://lwn.net/Articles/591978/ This is a special feed containing comments posted to the individual LWN article titled "Memory management locking". en-us Sun, 05 Oct 2025 23:50:58 +0000 Sun, 05 Oct 2025 23:50:58 +0000 https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification lwn@lwn.net https://lwn.net/Articles/594644/ https://lwn.net/Articles/594644/ kmeyer <div class="FormattedComment"> 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?<br> </div> Mon, 14 Apr 2014 02:40:21 +0000 https://lwn.net/Articles/593050/ https://lwn.net/Articles/593050/ Marvin <div class="FormattedComment"> Opening a window in which programs can access pages before the initialization is completed would be a security problem, wouldn't it?<br> </div> Fri, 04 Apr 2014 10:16:32 +0000