From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>
Cc: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@mathematik.uni-ulm.de>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: MM patches against 2.5.31
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 15:39:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D6D5128.9EE6DFDD@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: E17kAvf-0002tx-00@starship
Daniel Phillips wrote:
>
> ...
> So there's no question that the race is lurking in 2.4. I noticed several
> more paths besides the one above that look suspicious as well. The bottom
> line is, 2.4 needs a fix along the lines of my suggestion or Christian's,
> something that can actually be proved.
>
> It's a wonder that this problem manifests so rarely in practice.
I sort-of glanced through the 2.4 paths and it appears that in all of the
places where it could do a page_cache_get/release, that would never happen
because of other parts of the page state.
Like: it can't be in pagecache, so we won't run writepage, and
it can't have buffers, so we won't run try_to_release_page().
Of course, I might have missed a path. And, well, generally: ugh.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-28 22:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-22 2:29 MM patches against 2.5.31 Andrew Morton
2002-08-22 11:28 ` Christian Ehrhardt
2002-08-26 1:52 ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-26 9:10 ` Christian Ehrhardt
2002-08-26 14:22 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-08-26 15:29 ` Christian Ehrhardt
2002-08-26 17:56 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-08-26 19:24 ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-26 19:34 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-08-26 19:48 ` Christian Ehrhardt
2002-08-27 9:22 ` Christian Ehrhardt
2002-08-27 19:19 ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-26 20:00 ` Christian Ehrhardt
2002-08-26 20:09 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-08-26 20:58 ` Christian Ehrhardt
2002-08-27 16:48 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-08-28 13:14 ` Christian Ehrhardt
2002-08-28 17:18 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-08-28 17:42 ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-28 20:41 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-08-28 21:03 ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-28 22:04 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-08-28 22:39 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-08-28 22:57 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-08-26 21:31 ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-27 3:42 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-08-27 4:37 ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-26 17:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-26 19:28 ` Rik van Riel
2002-08-30 23:03 ` [RFC] [PATCH] Include LRU in page count Daniel Phillips
2002-08-31 16:14 ` Christian Ehrhardt
2002-08-31 17:54 ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-31 19:47 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-08-31 20:26 ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-31 21:05 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-08-31 22:30 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-01 3:36 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-01 21:32 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-01 22:09 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-01 22:08 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-01 22:20 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-01 23:08 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-01 23:19 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-01 23:28 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-01 23:33 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-02 0:17 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-02 0:30 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-02 1:50 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-02 1:08 ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-02 17:23 ` Christian Ehrhardt
2002-09-02 18:01 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-05 4:42 ` [RFC] Alternative raceless page free Daniel Phillips
2002-09-05 12:34 ` Christian Ehrhardt
2002-09-05 15:21 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-05 16:04 ` Christian Ehrhardt
2002-09-05 16:10 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-05 16:31 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-05 18:06 ` [RFC] Alternative raceless page free, updated Daniel Phillips
2002-08-22 15:59 ` MM patches against 2.5.31 Steven Cole
2002-08-22 16:06 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-08-22 19:45 ` Steven Cole
2002-08-26 2:15 ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-26 2:08 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-08-26 2:32 ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-26 3:06 ` Steven Cole
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-08-26 22:09 Ed Tomlinson
2002-08-26 23:58 ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-27 0:13 ` Rik van Riel
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