From: "David S. Miller" <davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com>
To: sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk
Cc: whawes@star.net, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu,
torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
number6@the-village.bc.nu
Subject: Re: patch for 2.1.102 swap code
Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 03:07:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199805251007.DAA02073@dm.cobaltmicro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199805241728.SAA02816@dax.dcs.ed.ac.uk> (sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk)
Date: Sun, 24 May 1998 18:28:48 +0100
From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
The __get_free_page() may block, however, and in a threaded
environment this will cause the loss of user data plus a memory
leak if two threads hit this race. However, I don't think it's
related to the current writable cached page problems.
The mmap semaphore is held, it cannot happen.
Later,
David S. Miller
davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-05-25 10:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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1998-05-24 17:28 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1998-05-25 10:07 ` David S. Miller [this message]
1998-05-25 12:38 ` Eric W. Biederman
1998-05-26 21:52 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1998-06-11 14:31 ` Eric W. Biederman
1998-06-12 21:29 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1998-05-25 12:52 ` Bill Hawes
1998-05-25 13:42 ` David S. Miller
1998-05-26 18:00 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1998-05-26 21:38 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1998-05-26 21:46 ` Rik van Riel
1998-06-02 22:21 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1998-05-27 15:27 ` Bill Hawes
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