From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
To: Blaisorblade <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>,
Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
akpm@osdl.org, dvhltc@us.ibm.com, linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Subject: Re: New bug in patch and existing Linux code - race with install_page() (was: Re: [PATCH] 2.6.14 patch for supporting madvise(MADV_REMOVE))
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 20:45:03 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0511022043240.17907@goblin.wat.veritas.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0511022003070.17607@goblin.wat.veritas.com>
On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Blaisorblade wrote:
>
> No, it should be fine as is (unless perhaps some barrier is needed).
We already have the barrier needed: we're holding page_table_lock (pte lock).
Hugh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-02 20:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2005-11-02 1:15 ` [PATCH] 2.6.14 patch for supporting madvise(MADV_FREE) Badari Pulavarty
2005-11-02 1:43 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-11-02 15:49 ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-11-02 16:12 ` [PATCH] 2.6.14 patch for supporting madvise(MADV_REMOVE) Badari Pulavarty
2005-11-02 19:54 ` New bug in patch and existing Linux code - race with install_page() (was: Re: [PATCH] 2.6.14 patch for supporting madvise(MADV_REMOVE)) Blaisorblade
2005-11-02 20:12 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-11-02 20:45 ` Hugh Dickins [this message]
2005-11-02 21:36 ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-11-02 21:55 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-11-02 22:02 ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-11-12 0:25 ` [PATCH] 2.6.14 patch for supporting madvise(MADV_REMOVE) Andrew Morton
2005-11-12 0:34 ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-11-12 1:43 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-12 4:41 ` Badari Pulavarty
2006-01-16 13:06 ` differences between MADV_FREE and MADV_DONTNEED Andrea Arcangeli
2006-01-16 16:02 ` Suleiman Souhlal
2006-01-16 16:28 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2006-01-16 17:03 ` Suleiman Souhlal
2006-01-16 17:24 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2006-01-16 21:43 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-01-17 0:24 ` Suleiman Souhlal
2006-01-17 1:04 ` Nicholas Miell
2006-01-17 12:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-01-17 18:23 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-01-17 22:55 ` Nicholas Miell
2007-03-01 18:11 ` Samuel Thibault
2006-01-17 19:06 ` Badari Pulavarty
2006-01-17 1:06 ` Blaisorblade
2006-01-17 1:33 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-11-12 0:34 ` [PATCH] 2.6.14 patch for supporting madvise(MADV_REMOVE) Andrew Morton
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