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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
Cc: mbligh@aracnet.com, wli@holomorphy.com, davem@redhat.com,
	rohit.seth@intel.com, davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com, anton@samba.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: hugepage patches
Date: 05 Feb 2003 05:25:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1r8amzzg6.fsf@frodo.biederman.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030204131206.2b6c33fa.akpm@digeo.com>

Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com> writes:

> ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:
> >
> > I can't imagine it being useful to guys like oracle without MAP_SHARED
> > support....
> 
> MAP_SHARED is supported.  I haven't tested it much though.

Given that none of the standard kernel idioms to prevent races in
this kind of code are present, I would be very surprised if it
was not racy.

- inode->i_sem is not taken to protect inode->i_size.
- After successfully allocating a page, a test is not made to see if
  another process with the same mapping has allocated the page first.

Eric
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  reply	other threads:[~2003-02-05 12:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-31 23:15 Andrew Morton
2003-01-31 23:13 ` David S. Miller
2003-01-31 23:36   ` Andrew Morton
2003-01-31 23:23     ` David S. Miller
2003-01-31 23:45       ` Andrew Morton
2003-01-31 23:48         ` David S. Miller
2003-01-31 23:16 ` Andrew Morton
2003-01-31 23:17 ` Andrew Morton
2003-01-31 23:18 ` Andrew Morton
2003-01-31 23:18 ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-01  8:58   ` Ingo Oeser
2003-02-01  9:31     ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-01 10:00       ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-02-01 10:14         ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-02 10:55 ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-02 10:55 ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-02 19:59   ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-02-02 20:49     ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-03 15:09       ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-02-03 21:29         ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-04  5:37           ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-02-04  5:50             ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-02-04  7:06               ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-02-04  7:16                 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-02-04 12:40                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-02-04 15:55                     ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-02-05 12:18                       ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-02-04 21:12                     ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-05 12:25                       ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2003-02-05 19:57                         ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-05 20:00                           ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-02 10:55 ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-02 10:56 ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-02 20:06   ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-02-02 10:56 ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-02 10:56 ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-02 10:57 ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-02 10:57 ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-02 20:17   ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-02-02 10:57 ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-07 21:49 Seth, Rohit
2003-02-07 22:00 ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-07 22:02 Seth, Rohit
2003-02-07 22:24 ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-08  1:47 Seth, Rohit
2003-02-08  2:02 ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-08  3:05 Seth, Rohit
2003-02-08  8:48 ` Andrew Morton

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