* Rik van Riel [off-list ref] wrote:

On 12/01/2012 03:10 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:

quoted

Convert the struct anon_vma::mutex to an rwsem, which will help
in solving a page-migration scalability problem. (Addressed in
a separate patch.)

The conversion is simple and straightforward: in every case
where we mutex_lock()ed we'll now down_write().

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <redacted>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <redacted>
Cc: Rik van Riel <redacted>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <redacted>

Thanks Rik!

	Ingo

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