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Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 03:25:54 +0100
From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@innominate.de>
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To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: test13-pre6
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Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> Ok, there's a test13-pre6 out there now, which does a partial sync with
> Alan, in addition to hopefully fixing the innd shared mapping writeback
> problem for good.  Thanks to Marcelo Tosatti and others..

After the page_cache_release at line 574 of vmscan.c the page is
unlocked and only owned by the page cache - anything could happen.  How
do you know the set_page_dirty at line 581 is still hitting a valid
page?

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Daniel
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