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   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
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