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On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 12:56:23AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> wrote: > > > > that will finally close the race > > Could someone please convince me that we really _need_ to close it? > > The VM handles the whacky pages OK (on slowpaths), and when this first came > up two years ago it was argued that the application was racy/buggy > anyway. So as long as we're secure and stable, we don't care. Certainly > not to the point of adding more atomic ops on the fastpath. > > So... what bug are we actually fixing here? we're fixing userspace data corruption with an app trapping SIGBUS. > > > (I'd also like to see a clearer description of the distributed fs problem, > and how this fixes it). I certainly would like discussions about it too. Andrea - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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