Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264993AbTFLUym (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jun 2003 16:54:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264994AbTFLUym (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jun 2003 16:54:42 -0400 Received: from pixpat.austin.ibm.com ([192.35.232.241]:1471 "EHLO baldur.austin.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264993AbTFLUyl (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jun 2003 16:54:41 -0400 Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 16:08:18 -0500 From: Dave McCracken To: Andrew Morton cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix vmtruncate race and distributed filesystem race Message-ID: <150040000.1055452098@baldur.austin.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <20030612140014.32b7244d.akpm@digeo.com> References: <133430000.1055448961@baldur.austin.ibm.com> <20030612134946.450e0f77.akpm@digeo.com> <20030612140014.32b7244d.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: 805 Lines: 22 --On Thursday, June 12, 2003 14:00:14 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote: > And this does require that ->nopage be entered with page_table_lock held, > and that it drop it. I think that's a worse layer violation than referencing inode in do_no_page. We shouldn't require that the filesystem layer mess with the page_table_lock. 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/