Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262382AbTENOvK (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 May 2003 10:51:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262409AbTENOvK (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 May 2003 10:51:10 -0400 Received: from pixpat.austin.ibm.com ([192.35.232.241]:54641 "EHLO baldur.austin.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262382AbTENOvD (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 May 2003 10:51:03 -0400 Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 10:02:56 -0500 From: Dave McCracken To: Andrew Morton cc: wli@holomorphy.com, mika.penttila@kolumbus.fi, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Race between vmtruncate and mapped areas? Message-ID: <18730000.1052924576@baldur.austin.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <20030513181022.6dbc5418.akpm@digeo.com> References: <154080000.1052858685@baldur.austin.ibm.com> <3EC15C6D.1040403@kolumbus.fi><199610000.1052864784@baldur.austin.ibm.com> <20030513224929.GX8978@holomorphy.com> <220550000.1052866808@baldur.austin.ibm.com> <20030513181022.6dbc5418.akpm@digeo.com> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.2.1 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 697 Lines: 21 --On Tuesday, May 13, 2003 18:10:22 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote: >> Can anyone think of any gotchas to this solution? > > mmap_sem nests outside i_shared_sem. Rats. You're right. Time to consider alternatives. Dave ====================================================================== Dave McCracken IBM Linux Base Kernel Team 1-512-838-3059 dmccr@us.ibm.com T/L 678-3059 - 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/