Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 16 Dec 2000 02:49:40 -0800 (PST) | From | Chris Mason <> | Subject | Re: [lkml]Re: VM problems still in 2.2.18 |
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On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Yes, the same `current' context must run the down/up pair of calls and as you > > said it is legal to rely on it on all the places it's used. > > I assume thats not an issue to reiserfs ? > I don't think so. There are two places reiserfs calls down/up. In our file->release() callback, and in the ioctl we added for lilo so it can upack files with tails.
Neither calls copy_from/to_user or does an allocation other than GFP_BUFFER. As far as I know that should be safe, but the change is trivial if we need to make it.
-chris
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