Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 23 May 2003 17:21:53 +0100 (BST) | From | Hugh Dickins <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] Avoid vmtruncate/mmap-page-fault race |
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On Fri, 23 May 2003, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 01:11:57AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > However there is not a lot of commonality between the various nopage()s and > > there may not be a lot to be gained from all this. There is subtle code in > > there and it is performance-critical. I'd be inclined to try to minimise > > overall code churn in this work. > > Good point! Here is a patch to do this. A "few" caveats:
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.
Hugh
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