Thread (15 messages) 15 messages, 4 authors, 2003-06-24

Re: [PATCH] Fix vmtruncate race and distributed filesystem race

From: Dave McCracken <hidden>
Date: 2003-06-12 20:54:42
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--On Thursday, June 12, 2003 14:00:14 -0700 Andrew Morton [off-list ref]
wrote:
And this does require that ->nopage be entered with page_table_lock held,
and that it drop it.
I think that's a worse layer violation than referencing inode in
do_no_page.  We shouldn't require that the filesystem layer mess with the
page_table_lock.

Dave

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Dave McCracken          IBM Linux Base Kernel Team      1-512-838-3059
dmccr@us.ibm.com                                        T/L   678-3059

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