From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Phillips Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Avoid vmtruncate/mmap-page-fault race Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 19:10:58 +0200 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200305231910.58743.phillips@arcor.de> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Hugh Dickins , "Paul E. McKenney" Cc: Andrew Morton , hch@infradead.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 -- 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