From: Nick Piggin <u3293115@anu.edu.au>
To: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: Chuck Lever <chucklever@gmail.com>,
apkm@osdl.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, steved@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make invalidate_inode_pages2() work again
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 16:24:45 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4518C7AD.3090507@anu.edu.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <451884C1.8080209@yahoo.com.au>
Nick Piggin wrote:
> So I really dislike get_user_pages for reasons such as this. IMO it would
> be cool if get_user_pages when the caller wants to write, would return
> with
> the page dirty and a bit set to prevent writeout from cleaning it
> until it
> has been finished with (via put_user_pages).
>
> Actually, _ideally_, maybe keeping the mapping around (ie. holding at
> least a read lock on mmap_sem) would do the trick. The presence of the
> mapping will be seen by the invalidate routines[*], and in general things
> might be simplified.
No, I guess that isn't going to work, because it'll mean one thread can
DoS the others WRT mmap and brk. I'll look into the per-page flag bit
idea.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-26 6:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-25 23:15 Chuck Lever
2006-09-25 23:59 ` Nick Piggin
2006-09-26 1:20 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-09-26 1:39 ` Nick Piggin
2006-09-26 6:24 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2006-09-26 1:42 ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-26 1:54 ` Nick Piggin
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