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From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Race in shrink_cache
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 10:33:12 -0300 (BRT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L.0209051032530.1857-100000@imladris.surriel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E17mqFV-00065Y-00@starship>

On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Daniel Phillips wrote:

> /*
>  * We must not allow an anon page
>  * with no buffers to be visible on
>  * the LRU, so we unlock the page after
>  * taking the lru lock
>  */
>
> That is, what's scary about an anon page without buffers?

Nothing, those are placed on the LRU all the time.

Rik
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2002-09-05 13:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-05  5:04 Race in shrink_cache Daniel Phillips
2002-09-05  6:36 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-05  6:36   ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-05  7:07     ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-05  7:28       ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-05  7:53         ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-05 18:41           ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-05 18:51             ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-05 19:08               ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-05 19:22                 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-05 20:00                   ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-05 13:33     ` Rik van Riel [this message]

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