Re: page_mkwrite caller is racy?

From: David Howells
Date: Thu Feb 01 2007 - 06:45:42 EST


Hugh Dickins <hugh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Must it be able to sleep?
>
> Not as David was using it

It absolutely *must* be able to sleep. It has to wait for FS-Cache to finish
writing the page to the cache before letting the PTE be made writable.

David
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