Subject	Use killable vma write locking in most places
Author	surenb@google.com
Date	2026-03-27 20:54:52 +0000 UTC
Version	Version 2 Version 3 Version 4 Version 5 Version 6
Cc	agordeev@linux.ibm.com akpm@linux-foundation.org apopple@nvidia.com baohua@kernel.org baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com borntraeger@linux.ibm.com byungchul@sk.com chleroy@kernel.org david@kernel.org dev.jain@arm.com frankja@linux.ibm.com gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com gor@linux.ibm.com gourry@gourry.net hca@linux.ibm.com imbrenda@linux.ibm.com jannh@google.com joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com kees@kernel.org kvm@vger.kernel.org lance.yang@linux.dev liam.howlett@oracle.com linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org linux-mm@kvack.org linux-s390@vger.kernel.org linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org ljs@kernel.org lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com maddy@linux.ibm.com matthew.brost@intel.com mhocko@suse.com mpe@ellerman.id.au npache@redhat.com npiggin@gmail.com pfalcato@suse.de rakie.kim@sk.com ritesh.list@gmail.com rppt@kernel.org ryan.roberts@arm.com surenb@google.com svens@linux.ibm.com vbabka@suse.cz willy@infradead.org ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com ziy@nvidia.com

Patches (6)

Name	Content [All]
[PATCH v6 1/6] mm/vma: cleanup error handling path in vma_expand()	[Body]
[PATCH v6 2/6] mm: use vma_start_write_killable() in mm syscalls	[Body]
[PATCH v6 3/6] mm/khugepaged: use vma_start_write_killable() in collapse_huge_page()	[Body]
[PATCH v6 4/6] mm/vma: use vma_start_write_killable() in vma operations	[Body]
[PATCH v6 5/6] mm: use vma_start_write_killable() in process_vma_walk_lock()	[Body]
[PATCH v6 6/6] KVM: PPC: use vma_start_write_killable() in kvmppc_memslot_page_merge()	[Body]

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