From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 02:55:32 +0200 From: Andrea Arcangeli Subject: Re: resend Re: [PATCH] final merging patch -- significant mozilla speedup. Message-ID: <20010819025532.S1719@athlon.random> References: <20010819023548.P1719@athlon.random> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from riel@conectiva.com.br on Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 09:50:04PM -0300 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Rik van Riel Cc: Ben LaHaise , torvalds@transmeta.com, alan@redhat.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, Chris Blizzard List-ID: On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 09:50:04PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Sun, 19 Aug 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 08:10:50PM -0400, Ben LaHaise wrote: > > > > Your patch performs a few odd things like: > > > > > > + vma->vm_raend = 0; > ... > > > which I would argue are incorrect. Remember that page faults rely on > > > > vm_raend is obviously correct. > > Why ? Do you know of any piece of code that touches vm_raend without the the mmap_sem acquired? If yes you will change my mind about it otherwise you will know why. Andrea -- 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/