Re: [RFC][PATCH] Avoid vmtruncate/mmap-page-fault race

Hugh Dickins
2003-05-23T16:21:53Z

On Fri, 23 May 2003, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 01:11:57AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> > However there is not a lot of commonality between the various nopage()s and
> > there may not be a lot to be gained from all this. There is subtle code in
> > there and it is performance-critical. I'd be inclined to try to minimise
> > overall code churn in this work.
>
> Good point! Here is a patch to do this. A "few" caveats:

Sorry, I miss the point of this patch entirely. At the moment it just
looks like an unattractive rearrangement - the code churn akpm advised
against - with no bearing on that vmtruncate race. Please correct me.

Hugh