From: Dave McCracken <dmccr@us.ibm.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix vmtruncate race and distributed filesystem race
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 16:08:18 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <150040000.1055452098@baldur.austin.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030612140014.32b7244d.akpm@digeo.com>
--On Thursday, June 12, 2003 14:00:14 -0700 Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
wrote:
> And this does require that ->nopage be entered with page_table_lock held,
> and that it drop it.
I think that's a worse layer violation than referencing inode in
do_no_page. We shouldn't require that the filesystem layer mess with the
page_table_lock.
Dave
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dmccr@us.ibm.com T/L 678-3059
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-12 21:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-12 20:16 Dave McCracken
2003-06-12 20:49 ` Andrew Morton
2003-06-12 21:00 ` Andrew Morton
2003-06-12 21:08 ` Dave McCracken [this message]
2003-06-12 21:44 ` Andrew Morton
2003-06-12 22:56 ` Dave McCracken
2003-06-12 23:07 ` Andrew Morton
2003-06-20 0:17 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-06-23 3:28 ` Paul E. McKenney
2003-06-23 6:29 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-06-23 6:32 ` Andrew Morton
2003-06-23 7:43 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-06-23 7:56 ` Andrew Morton
2003-06-23 8:10 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-06-24 1:37 ` Paul E. McKenney
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