Re: [PATCH] Fix races in 2.4.2-ac22 SysV shared memory

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 23 Mar 2001 22:35:21 +0000 (GMT)

> If you don't want to sleep, you need to use one of the wrappers for
> "__find_page_nolock()". Something like "find_get_page()", which only
> "gets" the page.

* a rather lightweight function, finding and getting a reference to a
* hashed page atomically, waiting for it if it's locked.

__find_get_page has I think a misleading comment ?

> The naming actually does make sense in this area.

Yep

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