On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:
>I guess shrink_mmap() needs some comments. ;)
I tried to add commentary for everything that I considered subtle, but of
course I won't reject further commentary.
>> 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.
Maybe I missed the email (if it's not a pain for you please forward it to
me). thanks!
To me it seems the VFS avoids by design truncate_inode_pages() to be
called in parallel on the same inode (that was the problem you mentioned
in earlier email).
Andrea
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