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Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 10:33:12 -0300 (BRT)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: Race in shrink_cache
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On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Daniel Phillips wrote:

> /*
>  * We must not allow an anon page
>  * with no buffers to be visible on
>  * the LRU, so we unlock the page after
>  * taking the lru lock
>  */
>
> That is, what's scary about an anon page without buffers?

Nothing, those are placed on the LRU all the time.

Rik
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