From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 16:08:18 -0500 From: Dave McCracken Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix vmtruncate race and distributed filesystem race Message-ID: <150040000.1055452098@baldur.austin.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <20030612140014.32b7244d.akpm@digeo.com> References: <133430000.1055448961@baldur.austin.ibm.com> <20030612134946.450e0f77.akpm@digeo.com> <20030612140014.32b7244d.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: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --On Thursday, June 12, 2003 14:00:14 -0700 Andrew Morton 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 ====================================================================== 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