Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Oct 2006 09:37:49 +0200 | From | Carsten Otte <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.19-rc2-mm1 |
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Nick Piggin wrote: > I don't believe filemap_xip holds the page lock, so you don't need to do > the atomic copy, and you don't need to do the fault_in_pages_readable. No, we don't hold the page lock. Xip pages are property of the block device driver, are not in the page lru, and by calling get_xip_page we retrieved a reference to that page which remains valid until the file system is unmounted / the block device is closed. - 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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