From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: Always passing mm and vma down (was: [RFC][PATCH] Convert do_no_page() to a hook to avoid DFS race) From: Arjan van de Ven Reply-To: arjanv@redhat.com In-Reply-To: <20030601200056.GA1471@us.ibm.com> References: <20030530164150.A26766@us.ibm.com> <20030531104617.J672@nightmaster.csn.tu-chemnitz.de> <20030531234816.GB1408@us.ibm.com> <20030601122200.GB1455@x30.local> <20030601200056.GA1471@us.ibm.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-5tTYBd1hBuLsexo8h+jz" Message-Id: <1054542770.5187.1.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: 02 Jun 2003 10:32:50 +0200 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: paulmck@us.ibm.com Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@digeo.com List-ID: --=-5tTYBd1hBuLsexo8h+jz Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2003-06-01 at 22:00, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > The immediate motivation is to avoid the race with zap_page_range() > when another node writes to the corresponding portion of the file, > similar to the situation with vmtruncate(). The thought was to > leverage locking within the distributed filesystem, but if the > race is solved locally, then, as you say, perhaps this is not=20 > necessary. is said distributed filesystem open source by chance ? --=-5tTYBd1hBuLsexo8h+jz Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA+2wuxxULwo51rQBIRAoWcAKCR5pVUn9ke2BrsWvJkwu/M0dUw1wCgjeif VJBEg55IRamoopAs9qNxUIU= =/XzA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-5tTYBd1hBuLsexo8h+jz-- -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org