Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263584AbTEMUvd (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2003 16:51:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263585AbTEMUvd (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2003 16:51:33 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.224.33.161]:43196 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263584AbTEMUvc (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2003 16:51:32 -0400 Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 14:04:03 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Mika Penttil? Cc: Dave McCracken , Linux Memory Management , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: Race between vmtruncate and mapped areas? Message-ID: <20030513210403.GT8978@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Mika Penttil? , Dave McCracken , Linux Memory Management , Linux Kernel References: <154080000.1052858685@baldur.austin.ibm.com> <3EC15C6D.1040403@kolumbus.fi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3EC15C6D.1040403@kolumbus.fi> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 528 Lines: 15 On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 11:58:21PM +0300, Mika Penttil? wrote: > Isn't that what inode->i_sem is supposed to protect...? > --Mika It's already called under inode->i_sem. The trouble is that it's not the ->i_sem but the ->page_lock that's taken by those it's racing against. -- wli - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/