From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 13:24:25 -0500 From: Dave McCracken Subject: Re: Race between vmtruncate and mapped areas? Message-ID: <108250000.1052936665@baldur.austin.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <20030514111748.57670088.akpm@digeo.com> References: <154080000.1052858685@baldur.austin.ibm.com> <3EC15C6D.1040403@kolumbus.fi><199610000.1052864784@baldur.austin.ibm.com> <20030513181018.4cbff906.akpm@digeo.com> <18240000.1052924530@baldur.austin.ibm.com> <20030514103421.197f177a.akpm@digeo.com> <82240000.1052934152@baldur.austin.ibm.com> <20030514105706.628fba15.akpm@digeo.com> <99000000.1052935556@baldur.austin.ibm.com> <20030514111748.57670088.akpm@digeo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: mika.penttila@kolumbus.fi, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --On Wednesday, May 14, 2003 11:17:48 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote: > I think it might be sufficient to re-check the page against i_size > after IO completion in filemap_nopage(). It would definitely make the window a lot smaller, though it won't quite close it. To be entirely safe we'd need to recheck after we've retaken page_table_lock. Dave ====================================================================== Dave McCracken IBM Linux Base Kernel Team 1-512-838-3059 dmccr@us.ibm.com T/L 678-3059 -- 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