On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:
>
> >will be needed. It also doesn't eliminate a possible race
> >condition (afaik Ben is working on that one) in shrink_mmap().
>
> Which shrink_mmap race condition?
Oh, you're right. I was worried about what would happen if we
looped back in the while() loop without the lock held, but now
I see that we grab the pagemap_lru_lock in unlock_continue...
I guess shrink_mmap() needs some comments. ;)
> >The patch does the following:
> >- remove possible race condition from truncate_inode_pages()
>
> Which truncate_inode_pages race condition? Please provide a
> stack trace, it shouldn't take too time for you if you have the
> race condition in mind.
Stephen has already answered this question a number of
emails ago.
regards,
Rik
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