From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 02:20:00 -0700 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Race between vmtruncate and mapped areas? Message-Id: <20030515022000.0eb9db29.akpm@digeo.com> In-Reply-To: <20030515085519.GV1429@dualathlon.random> References: <154080000.1052858685@baldur.austin.ibm.com> <20030513181018.4cbff906.akpm@digeo.com> <18240000.1052924530@baldur.austin.ibm.com> <20030514103421.197f177a.akpm@digeo.com> <82240000.1052934152@baldur.austin.ibm.com> <20030515004915.GR1429@dualathlon.random> <20030515013245.58bcaf8f.akpm@digeo.com> <20030515085519.GV1429@dualathlon.random> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: dmccr@us.ibm.com, mika.penttila@kolumbus.fi, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > and it's still racy damn, and it just booted ;) I'm just a little bit concerned over the ever-expanding inode. Do you think the dual sequence numbers can be replaced by a single generation counter? I do think that we should push the revalidate operation over into the vm_ops. That'll require an extra arg to ->nopage, but it has a spare one anyway (!). -- 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