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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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  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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