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Subject: Re: [patch] mm: tiny-shmem fix lor, mmap_sem vs i_mutex
From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
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On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 19:18 +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> wrote:
> 
> > RFC Quick patch to fix nommu anonymous shared memory without breaking
> > locking...
> 
> That works:

Great.

Is there any reason I shouldn't use truncate() in regular shmem.c if I
were to unify the two files?

-- 
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