From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: riel@nl.linux.org
Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>,
Ben LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [patch] shrink_mmap() 2.3.99-pre6-3 (take 3)
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 01:12:15 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0004200107540.4117-100000@alpha.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0004191952110.12458-100000@duckman.conectiva>
On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:
>I guess shrink_mmap() needs some comments. ;)
I tried to add commentary for everything that I considered subtle, but of
course I won't reject further commentary.
>> Which truncate_inode_pages race condition? Please provide a
>> stack trace, it shouldn't take too time for you if you have the
>> race condition in mind.
>
>Stephen has already answered this question a number of
>emails ago.
Maybe I missed the email (if it's not a pain for you please forward it to
me). thanks!
To me it seems the VFS avoids by design truncate_inode_pages() to be
called in parallel on the same inode (that was the problem you mentioned
in earlier email).
Andrea
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-04-19 23:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-04-19 22:09 Rik van Riel
2000-04-19 22:38 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-04-19 22:58 ` Rik van Riel
2000-04-19 23:12 ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
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