--- a/Documentation/vm/active_mm.rst~docs-vm-fix-mm_count-vs-mm_users-counter-confusion +++ a/Documentation/vm/active_mm.rst @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ Active MM actually get cases where you have a address space that is _only_ used by lazy users. That is often a short-lived state, because once that thread gets scheduled away in favour of a real thread, the "zombie" mm gets - released because "mm_users" becomes zero. + released because "mm_count" becomes zero. Also, a new rule is that _nobody_ ever has "init_mm" as a real MM any more. "init_mm" should be considered just a "lazy context when no other