Re: [RFC][PATCH] Avoid vmtruncate/mmap-page-fault race

[Hugh Dickins]

On Fri, 23 May 2003, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 01:11:57AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 
> > However there is not a lot of commonality between the various nopage()s and
> > there may not be a lot to be gained from all this.  There is subtle code in
> > there and it is performance-critical.  I'd be inclined to try to minimise
> > overall code churn in this work.
> 
> Good point!  Here is a patch to do this.  A "few" caveats:

Sorry, I miss the point of this patch entirely.  At the moment it just
looks like an unattractive rearrangement - the code churn akpm advised
against - with no bearing on that vmtruncate race.  Please correct me.

Hugh