Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 08:25:56 +0100 (BST)
From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
To: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-mm@kvack.org, ak@suse.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] hugetlb: Demand fault handler
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On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, David Gibson wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure this does fully deal with truncation, I'm afraid - it
> will deal with a truncation well before the fault, but not a
> concurrent truncate().  We'll need the truncate_count/retry logic from
> do_no_page, I think.  Andi/Hugh, can you confirm that's correct?

Very likely you're right, but I already explained to Adam privately
that I won't get to look at all this before tomorrow - sorry.

Hugh
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