Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 02:20:00 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: dmccr@us.ibm.com, mika.penttila@kolumbus.fi, linux-mm@kvack.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Race between vmtruncate and mapped areas?
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Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> wrote:
>
> and it's still racy

damn, and it just booted ;)

I'm just a little bit concerned over the ever-expanding inode.  Do you
think the dual sequence numbers can be replaced by a single generation
counter?

I do think that we should push the revalidate operation over into the vm_ops. 
That'll require an extra arg to ->nopage, but it has a spare one anyway (!).


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