Re: Race in shrink_cache

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Thu Sep 05 2002 - 08:33:12 EST

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On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Daniel Phillips wrote:

> /*
> * We must not allow an anon page
> * with no buffers to be visible on
> * the LRU, so we unlock the page after
> * taking the lru lock
> */
>
> That is, what's scary about an anon page without buffers?

Nothing, those are placed on the LRU all the time.

Rik

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