From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [patch] mm: bug in set_page_dirty_buffers
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 20:37:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061009203718.d6a8f803.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061009202039.b6948a93.akpm@osdl.org>
On Mon, 9 Oct 2006 20:20:39 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Oct 2006 20:06:05 -0700 (PDT)
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > >
> > > This was triggered, but not the fault of, the dirty page accounting
> > > patches. Suitable for -stable as well, after it goes upstream.
> >
> > Applied. However, I wonder what protects "page_mapping()" here?
>
> Nothing. And I don't understand the (unchangelogged) switch from
> page->mapping to page_mapping().
>
> > I don't
> > think we hold the page lock anywhere, so "page->mapping" can change at any
> > time, no?
>
> Yes. The patch makes the race window a bit smaller.
OK, the address_space is protected from reclaim here by virtue of the
caller's ref on vma->vm_file (needs a comment).
The page_mapping() change remains a mystery.
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Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-10 2:36 Nick Piggin
2006-10-10 3:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-10 3:19 ` Nick Piggin
2006-10-10 3:20 ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-10 3:34 ` Nick Piggin
2006-10-10 3:50 ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-10 3:58 ` Nick Piggin
2006-10-10 4:14 ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-10 4:21 ` Nick Piggin
2006-10-10 4:38 ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-10 4:47 ` Nick Piggin
2006-10-10 5:01 ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-10 5:22 ` Nick Piggin
2006-10-10 5:29 ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-10 5:48 ` Nick Piggin
2006-10-10 6:08 ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-10 6:19 ` Nick Piggin
2006-10-10 6:27 ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-10 6:39 ` Nick Piggin
2006-10-10 6:52 ` Nick Piggin
2006-10-10 7:06 ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-10 7:21 ` Nick Piggin
2006-10-10 8:07 ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-10 8:18 ` Nick Piggin
2006-10-10 8:41 ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-10 8:49 ` Nick Piggin
2006-10-10 9:07 ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-10 9:23 ` Nick Piggin
2006-10-10 6:48 ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-10-10 6:59 ` Nick Piggin
2006-10-10 7:11 ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-10-10 7:30 ` Nick Piggin
2006-10-10 4:11 ` Nick Piggin
2006-10-10 3:37 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-10-10 3:42 ` Nick Piggin
2006-10-10 7:42 ` patch mm-bug-in-set_page_dirty_buffers.patch queued to -stable tree gregkh
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