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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix swapin race condition
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2010 18:02:02 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C379C5A.8070202@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.1007091242430.8201@tigran.mtv.corp.google.com>

On 07/09/2010 04:32 PM, Hugh Dickins wrote:

>>   	struct anon_vma *anon_vma = page_anon_vma(page);
>>
>> -	if (!anon_vma ||
>> -	    (anon_vma->root == vma->anon_vma->root&&
>> -	     page->index == linear_page_index(vma, address)))
>> -		return page;
>> -
>> -	return ksm_does_need_to_copy(page, vma, address);
>> +	return anon_vma&&
>> +		(anon_vma->root != vma->anon_vma->root ||
>> +		 page->index != linear_page_index(vma, address));
>>   }
>
> Hiding in here is a bigger question than your concern:
> are these tests right since Rik refactored the anon_vmas?
> I just don't know, but hope you and Rik can answer.

Yes, this bit is correct.  Andrea and I have gone over
this in detail a few weeks ago :)

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-07-09 22:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-09  0:23 [PATCH] fix swapin race condition Andrea Arcangeli
2010-07-09 20:32 ` Hugh Dickins
2010-07-09 21:19   ` Hugh Dickins
2010-07-09 22:02   ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2010-07-13  1:08   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2010-07-13 21:30     ` Hugh Dickins
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-09-03 15:39 Andrea Arcangeli
2010-09-03 20:02 ` Andrew Morton
2010-09-04 12:29   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2010-09-03 23:57 ` Rik van Riel
2010-09-06  2:35 ` Hugh Dickins
2010-09-15 23:02   ` Hugh Dickins
2010-09-15 23:42     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2010-09-16  0:10       ` Hugh Dickins
2010-09-16 21:03         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2010-09-16 21:08           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2010-09-17  2:31           ` Hugh Dickins
2010-09-18 13:19             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2010-09-20  2:35               ` Hugh Dickins

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