From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
"Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Ben LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>, Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix races in 2.4.2-ac22 SysV shared memory
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 22:29:45 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E14ga44-0005Zq-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0103231721120.10092-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu> from "Alexander Viro" at Mar 23, 2001 05:23:29 PM
> > > + page = find_lock_page(mapping, idx);
> > >
> > > Ehh.. Sleeping with the spin-lock held? Sounds like a truly bad idea.
> >
> > Umm find_lock_page doesnt sleep does it ?
>
> It certainly does. find_lock_page() -> __find_lock_page() -> lock_page() ->
> -> __lock_page() -> schedule().
Ok I missed the lock page one. Yep.
Alan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-03-23 22:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-03-23 1:13 Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-03-23 19:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-03-23 22:20 ` Alan Cox
2001-03-23 22:23 ` Alexander Viro
2001-03-23 22:29 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2001-03-23 22:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-03-23 22:35 ` Alan Cox
2001-03-23 22:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-03-23 22:31 ` David S. Miller
2001-03-25 0:13 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-03-25 1:05 ` Rik van Riel
2001-03-25 16:50 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-03-28 9:18 ` Christoph Rohland
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