From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>, "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>,
hch@infradead.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Avoid vmtruncate/mmap-page-fault race
Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 19:10:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200305231910.58743.phillips@arcor.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0305231713230.1602-100000@localhost.localdomain>
On Friday 23 May 2003 18:21, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> Sorry, I miss the point of this patch entirely. At the moment it just
> looks like an unattractive rearrangement - the code churn akpm advised
> against - with no bearing on that vmtruncate race. Please correct me.
This is all about supporting cross-host mmap (nice trick, huh?). Yes,
somebody should post a detailed rfc on that subject.
Regards,
Daniel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-23 17:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-17 18:21 [RFC][PATCH] vm_operation to avoid pagefault/inval race Daniel Phillips
2003-05-17 19:49 ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-20 1:23 ` Paul E. McKenney
2003-05-20 8:11 ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-23 14:35 ` [RFC][PATCH] Avoid vmtruncate/mmap-page-fault race Paul E. McKenney
2003-05-23 16:21 ` Hugh Dickins
2003-05-23 17:10 ` Daniel Phillips [this message]
2003-05-23 17:47 ` Hugh Dickins
2003-05-23 18:42 Paul E. McKenney
2003-05-29 15:14 ` Paul E. McKenney
2003-05-29 16:33 ` Hugh Dickins
2003-05-29 17:15 ` Daniel Phillips
2003-05-29 17:39 ` Daniel Phillips
2003-05-29 20:24 ` Paul E. McKenney
2003-05-30 2:38 ` Paul E. McKenney
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