Re: Race between vmtruncate and mapped areas?

Rik van Riel
2003-05-14T19:02:43Z

On Wed, 14 May 2003, Andrew Morton wrote:

> It would be nice to make them go away - they cause problems.

Absolutely. No way to know you can't objrmap these pages
and need to convert them to pte chains, so you end up leaking
them with objrmap...

Not to mention they could end up being outside of any VMA,
meaning there's no sane way to deal with them.