From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Dave McCracken <dmccr@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Mika Penttil? <mika.penttila@kolumbus.fi>,
Linux Memory Management <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Race between vmtruncate and mapped areas?
Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 16:29:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030513232930.GD8978@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <266860000.1052868500@baldur.austin.ibm.com>
On Tuesday, May 13, 2003 16:20:38 -0700 William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> wrote:
>> The mmap_sem works because then ->i_size can't be sampled by
>> filemap_nopage() before the pagetable wiping operation starts.
On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 06:28:20PM -0500, Dave McCracken wrote:
> So why isn't that the right way to do it? Waiting for mmap_sem guarantees
> we won't catch a page fault in flight, which is the cause of the problem in
> the first place.
Oh it works fine, it's just the explanation for why it's sufficient I
was looking for.
-- wli
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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Dave McCracken <dmccr@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Mika Penttil? <mika.penttila@kolumbus.fi>,
Linux Memory Management <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Race between vmtruncate and mapped areas?
Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 16:29:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030513232930.GD8978@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <266860000.1052868500@baldur.austin.ibm.com>
On Tuesday, May 13, 2003 16:20:38 -0700 William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> wrote:
>> The mmap_sem works because then ->i_size can't be sampled by
>> filemap_nopage() before the pagetable wiping operation starts.
On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 06:28:20PM -0500, Dave McCracken wrote:
> So why isn't that the right way to do it? Waiting for mmap_sem guarantees
> we won't catch a page fault in flight, which is the cause of the problem in
> the first place.
Oh it works fine, it's just the explanation for why it's sufficient I
was looking for.
-- wli
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Thread overview: 100+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-13 20:44 Race between vmtruncate and mapped areas? Dave McCracken
2003-05-13 20:44 ` Dave McCracken
2003-05-13 20:58 ` Mika Penttilä
2003-05-13 20:58 ` Mika Penttilä
2003-05-13 21:04 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-13 21:04 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-13 22:26 ` Dave McCracken
2003-05-13 22:26 ` Dave McCracken
2003-05-13 22:49 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-13 22:49 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-13 23:00 ` Dave McCracken
2003-05-13 23:11 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-13 23:11 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-13 23:16 ` Dave McCracken
2003-05-13 23:16 ` Dave McCracken
2003-05-13 23:20 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-13 23:20 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-13 23:28 ` Dave McCracken
2003-05-13 23:28 ` Dave McCracken
2003-05-13 23:29 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2003-05-13 23:29 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-13 23:16 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-13 23:16 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-14 1:10 ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-14 1:10 ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-14 15:02 ` Dave McCracken
2003-05-14 15:02 ` Dave McCracken
2003-05-14 1:10 ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-14 1:10 ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-14 15:02 ` Dave McCracken
2003-05-14 15:02 ` Dave McCracken
2003-05-14 15:06 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-14 15:06 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-14 15:25 ` Dave McCracken
2003-05-14 15:25 ` Dave McCracken
2003-05-14 16:42 ` Gerrit Huizenga
2003-05-14 16:42 ` Gerrit Huizenga
2003-05-14 17:34 ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-14 17:34 ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-14 17:42 ` Dave McCracken
2003-05-14 17:42 ` Dave McCracken
2003-05-14 17:57 ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-14 17:57 ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-14 18:05 ` Dave McCracken
2003-05-14 18:05 ` Dave McCracken
2003-05-14 18:17 ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-14 18:17 ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-14 18:24 ` Dave McCracken
2003-05-14 18:24 ` Dave McCracken
2003-05-14 18:53 ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-14 18:53 ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-15 8:50 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-05-15 8:50 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-05-14 19:02 ` Rik van Riel
2003-05-14 19:02 ` Rik van Riel
2003-05-14 19:04 ` Rik van Riel
2003-05-14 19:04 ` Rik van Riel
2003-05-14 19:07 ` Dave McCracken
2003-05-14 19:07 ` Dave McCracken
2003-05-14 19:11 ` Rik van Riel
2003-05-14 19:11 ` Rik van Riel
2003-05-15 0:49 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-05-15 0:49 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-05-15 2:36 ` Rik van Riel
2003-05-15 2:36 ` Rik van Riel
2003-05-15 9:46 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-05-15 9:46 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-05-15 9:55 ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-15 9:55 ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-15 8:32 ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-15 8:32 ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-15 8:42 ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-15 8:42 ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-15 8:55 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-05-15 8:55 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-05-15 9:20 ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-15 9:20 ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-15 9:40 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-05-15 9:40 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-05-15 9:58 ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-15 9:58 ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-15 16:38 ` Daniel McNeil
2003-05-15 19:19 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-05-15 19:19 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-05-15 22:04 ` Daniel McNeil
2003-05-15 22:04 ` Daniel McNeil
2003-05-15 23:17 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-05-15 23:17 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-05-17 0:27 ` Daniel McNeil
2003-05-17 0:27 ` Daniel McNeil
2003-05-17 17:29 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-05-17 17:29 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-05-13 21:00 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-13 21:00 ` William Lee Irwin III
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-05-17 18:19 Paul McKenney
2003-05-17 18:19 ` Paul McKenney
2003-05-17 18:42 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-05-17 18:42 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-05-19 18:11 Paul McKenney
2003-05-19 18:11 ` Paul McKenney
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