From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 15:02:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: Race between vmtruncate and mapped areas? In-Reply-To: <20030514105706.628fba15.akpm@digeo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: Dave McCracken , mika.penttila@kolumbus.fi, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 14 May 2003, Andrew Morton wrote: > It would be nice to make them go away - they cause problems. Absolutely. No way to know you can't objrmap these pages and need to convert them to pte chains, so you end up leaking them with objrmap... Not to mention they could end up being outside of any VMA, meaning there's no sane way to deal with them. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org