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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: riel@conectiva.com.br
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@transmeta.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH *] VM patch for 2.4.0-test8
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 22:25:14 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200009140525.WAA21446@pizda.ninka.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0009140119560.1075-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva> (message from Rik van Riel on Thu, 14 Sep 2000 01:30:26 -0300 (BRST))

In page_launder() about halfway down there is this sequence of tests
on LRU pages:

if (!clearedbuf) {
 ...
} else if (!page->mapping) {
 ...
} else if (page_count(page) > 1) {
} else /* page->mapping && page_count(page) == 1 */ {
 ...
}

Above this sequence we've done a page_cache_get.  For the final case
in the tests above (page->mapping != NULL && page_count(page) == 1)
have you checked if this ever happens or is even possible?

If the page is a page cache page (ie. page->mapping != NULL) it
should hold a reference.  Adding in our reference, the count should
always thus be > 1.

What did I miss?

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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  reply	other threads:[~2000-09-14  5:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-09-14  4:30 Rik van Riel
2000-09-14  5:25 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2000-09-14  6:11   ` Juan J. Quintela
2000-09-14  8:18     ` David S. Miller
2000-09-14 16:53   ` Rik van Riel
2000-09-14 17:49     ` Rik van Riel
2000-09-15 17:28     ` Martin Josefsson
2000-09-15 19:37       ` Jamie Lokier
2000-09-15 21:07         ` David Ford
2000-09-15 22:04         ` Rik van Riel

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