The __get_free_page() may block, however, and in a threaded
environment this will cause the loss of user data plus a memory
leak if two threads hit this race. However, I don't think it's
related to the current writable cached page problems.
The mmap semaphore is held, it cannot happen.
Later,
David S. Miller
davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com
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