From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 20:45:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Hugh Dickins Subject: Re: New bug in patch and existing Linux code - race with install_page() (was: Re: [PATCH] 2.6.14 patch for supporting madvise(MADV_REMOVE)) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <1130366995.23729.38.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20051102014321.GG24051@opteron.random> <1130947957.24503.70.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200511022054.15119.blaisorblade@yahoo.it> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Blaisorblade Cc: Badari Pulavarty , Andrea Arcangeli , lkml , akpm@osdl.org, dvhltc@us.ibm.com, linux-mm , Jeff Dike List-ID: On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Hugh Dickins wrote: > On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Blaisorblade wrote: > > No, it should be fine as is (unless perhaps some barrier is needed). We already have the barrier needed: we're holding page_table_lock (pte lock). Hugh -- 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: email@kvack.org