Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 4 Feb 2007 10:26:29 +0000 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [patch 9/9] mm: fix pagecache write deadlocks |
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On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 11:15:29AM +0100, Nick Piggin wrote: > Cool, a kernel thread is calling sys_write. Fun.
There are tons of places where we possible call into ->write from either kernel threads or at least with a kernel pointer and set_fs/set_ds magic. Anything in the buffer write path that tries to touch page tables can't work.
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