David Laight wrote:
> No - read it carefully. eg for:

Yeah, classic comparison :) It's right, indeed.

> There are (will be) places where proc structure fields need protecting
> against accesses by other processes [1].  So calling the field p_lock
> (because is locks proc structure fields) is better.

Right. Single p_lock would be proper then. Apparently e.g. the RAS
lock guards only specific subset of struct proc (the ras list), but
I guess it'd be safer to have single lock for whole structure.

Jaromir
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