On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Stephen Wilson <wils...@start.ca> wrote:
> Morally, the question of whether an address lies in a gate vma should be asked
> with respect to an mm, not a particular task.
>
> Practically, dropping the dependency on task_struct will help make current and
> future operations on mm's more flexible and convenient.  In particular, it
> allows some code paths to avoid the need to hold task_lock.

Reviewed-by: Michel Lespinasse <wal...@google.com>

May I suggest ia32_compat instead of just compat for the flag name ?

-- 
Michel "Walken" Lespinasse
A program is never fully debugged until the last user dies.
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