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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: aprasad@in.ibm.com
Cc: bsuparna@in.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Oddness in i_shared_lock and page_table_lock nesting hierarchies ?
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 23:34:26 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200011100734.XAA26767@pizda.ninka.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA256993.0026C8BD.00@d73mta05.au.ibm.com> (aprasad@in.ibm.com)
In-Reply-To: <CA256993.0026C8BD.00@d73mta05.au.ibm.com>

   From: aprasad@in.ibm.com
   Date: 	Fri, 10 Nov 2000 12:25:24 +0530

   this link might be useful
   http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-mm/2000-07/msg00038.html

This talks about a completely different bug.

We are talking here about inconsistant ordering of lock acquisition
when both mapping->i_shared_lock and mm->page_table_lock must be
held simultaneously.

The thread you quoted merely mentions the issue we have mm->rss
modifications are not always protected properly by the
page_table_lock.

There were no previous public discussions about the
i_shared_lock/page_table_lock deadlock problems.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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  reply	other threads:[~2000-11-10  7:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-11-10  6:55 aprasad
2000-11-10  7:34 ` David S. Miller [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-11-10  9:29 bsuparna
2000-11-09 12:16 bsuparna
2000-11-10  6:44 ` David S. Miller
2000-11-06 13:50 bsuparna
2000-11-05  5:51 bsuparna
2000-11-06  3:14 ` David S. Miller
2000-11-06 18:42 ` tytso

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