Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Oct 2002 10:59:29 -0700 | From | chrisl@vmware ... | Subject | Re: writepage return value check in vmscan.c |
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On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 10:15:06AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 09:36, Andrew Morton wrote: > > A few fixes have been discussed. One way would be to allocate > > the space for the page when it is first faulted into reality and > > deliver SIGBUS if backing store for it could not be allocated. > > You still have to handle the situation where the page goes walkies and > you get ENOSPC or any other ERANDOMSUPRISE from things like NFS. SIGBUS > appears the right thing to do. > exactly. It need to preserve the page dirty in the first place.
Chris
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