Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263573AbTENSt4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 May 2003 14:49:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263590AbTENSt4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 May 2003 14:49:56 -0400 Received: from nat-pool-bos.redhat.com ([66.187.230.200]:15238 "EHLO chimarrao.boston.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263573AbTENStz (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 May 2003 14:49:55 -0400 Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 15:02:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Rik van Riel X-X-Sender: riel@chimarrao.boston.redhat.com To: Andrew Morton cc: Dave McCracken , , , Subject: Re: Race between vmtruncate and mapped areas? In-Reply-To: <20030514105706.628fba15.akpm@digeo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 600 Lines: 16 On Wed, 14 May 2003, Andrew Morton wrote: > It would be nice to make them go away - they cause problems. Absolutely. No way to know you can't objrmap these pages and need to convert them to pte chains, so you end up leaking them with objrmap... Not to mention they could end up being outside of any VMA, meaning there's no sane way to deal with them. - 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/