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Posted May 4, 2018 14:14 UTC (Fri) by willy (subscriber, #9762)Parent article: get_user_pages() continued
Another issue was that we aren't convinced there are no deadlock scenarios where Task A gets Page A, then gets Page B, while Task B gets Page B followed by Page A. Since those are simple refcount bumps today, there's no deadlock; turning the refcount bump into a page lock would make it one.