>More than that, if you even so much as remove the locked block/page from
>the hash lists, you prevent any future access from discovering the
>existing lock on those disk blocks --- a sure invitation to data
>corruption.
That wasn't my case. Technically I could run safe also in the old way
simply replacing the:
free_page()
{
if (last_reference)
{
if (locked)
Oops();
}
}
with:
free_page()
{
if (last_reference)
{
if (locked)
unlock();
}
}
but I was looking only my specific case, and now that I see the whole
picture I agree that in general is far better to forbid a locked page to
be freed (and it's also more efficient :).
Andrea Arcangeli
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