From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 23:41:23 -0700 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix split_vma vs. invalidate_mmap_range_list race Message-Id: <20031003234123.11b2bd73.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20031003224056.09421fb1.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Rajesh Venkatasubramanian Cc: davem@redhat.com, hch@lst.de, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Rajesh Venkatasubramanian wrote: > > > > > > It looks OK. I updated the VM lock ranking docco to cover this. > > > * > > + * ->i_sem > > + * ->i_shared_sem (truncate->invalidate_mmap_range) > > + * > > I don't understand how my patch introduced this new(?) ordering. It did not: I just added this as I was reviewing the code, because it was missing. -- 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