Re: [patch-2.3.99-pre7-1] SMP-safe vmalloc() and friends.

From: Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Date: Tue May 02 2000 - 15:57:41 EST


On Tue, 2 May 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
>
> Hmmm, but changes to vread() are very simple - apart from
> locking/unlocking vmlist_lock all we do is NOT write to userspace buffer
> but instead write to a kernel buffer passed as argument:

Ahh.. I missed the fact that you changed the caller of vread() too. I
looked at the current caller and thought your vread() changes looked
bogus.

I'll take another look,

                Linus

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