Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 May 1998 03:07:46 -0700 | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Subject | Re: patch for 2.1.102 swap code |
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Date: Sun, 24 May 1998 18:28:48 +0100 From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
The __get_free_page() may block, however, and in a threaded environment this will cause the loss of user data plus a memory leak if two threads hit this race. However, I don't think it's related to the current writable cached page problems.
The mmap semaphore is held, it cannot happen.
Later, David S. Miller davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com
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