Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264097AbTEWQ5s (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 May 2003 12:57:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264102AbTEWQ5s (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 May 2003 12:57:48 -0400 Received: from mail-in-03.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.43]:18066 "EHLO mail-in-03.arcor-online.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264097AbTEWQ5r (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 May 2003 12:57:47 -0400 From: Daniel Phillips To: Hugh Dickins , "Paul E. McKenney" Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Avoid vmtruncate/mmap-page-fault race Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 19:10:58 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 Cc: Andrew Morton , , , References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200305231910.58743.phillips@arcor.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 656 Lines: 16 On Friday 23 May 2003 18:21, Hugh Dickins wrote: > Sorry, I miss the point of this patch entirely. At the moment it just > looks like an unattractive rearrangement - the code churn akpm advised > against - with no bearing on that vmtruncate race. Please correct me. This is all about supporting cross-host mmap (nice trick, huh?). Yes, somebody should post a detailed rfc on that subject. Regards, Daniel - 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/