From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] hugetlb: synchronize alloc with page cache insert
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 14:52:02 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060111225202.GE9091@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1137018263.9672.10.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 04:24:23PM -0600, Adam Litke wrote:
> My only concern is if I am using the correct lock for the job here.
->i_lock looks rather fishy. It may have been necessary when ->i_blocks
was used for nefarious purposes, but without ->i_blocks fiddling, it's
not needed unless I somehow missed the addition of some custom fields
to hugetlbfs inodes and their modifications by any of these functions.
-- wli
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-11 22:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-10 19:22 Hugetlb: Shared memory race Adam Litke
2006-01-10 19:44 ` William Lee Irwin III
2006-01-11 22:02 ` [PATCH 1/2] hugetlb: Delay page zeroing for faulted pages Adam Litke
2006-01-11 22:24 ` [PATCH 2/2] hugetlb: synchronize alloc with page cache insert Adam Litke
2006-01-11 22:52 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2006-01-11 23:03 ` Adam Litke
2006-01-11 23:24 ` William Lee Irwin III
2006-01-11 23:46 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-01-12 0:40 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-01-12 1:05 ` William Lee Irwin III
2006-01-12 17:26 ` Adam Litke
2006-01-12 19:07 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-01-12 19:48 ` Adam Litke
2006-01-12 20:06 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-01-11 22:42 ` [PATCH 1/2] hugetlb: Delay page zeroing for faulted pages William Lee Irwin III
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