Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 02 Aug 2006 09:53:49 +1000 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: [patch 1/2] mm: speculative get_page |
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Oleg Nesterov wrote: > On 08/01, Dave Kleikamp wrote:
>>Isn't the page locked when calling remove_mapping()? It looks like >>SetPageNoNewRefs & ClearPageNoNewRefs are called in safe places. Either >>the page is locked, or it's newly allocated. I could have missed >>something, though. > > > No, I think it is I who missed something, thanks.
Yeah, SetPageNoNewRefs is indeed called only under PageLocked or for newly allocated pages. I should make a note about that, as it isn't immediately clear.
Thanks
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