Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 May 2003 02:58:52 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: Race between vmtruncate and mapped areas? |
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Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> wrote: > > > 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 (!). > > not sure why you need a callback, the lowlevel if needed can serialize > using the same locking in the address space that vmtruncate uses. I > would wait a real case need before adding a callback.
Just a vague feeling that knowing about vm_file in do_no_page() is a layering violation. I guess we can live with it. - 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/
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