Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Jan 1999 11:11:49 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [patch] fixed both processes in D state and the /proc/ oopses [Re: [patch] Fixed the race that was oopsing Linux-2.2.0] |
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On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Alan Cox wrote: > > (c) you can check if the thing has disappeared after using it and clear > the buffer if so.
Yes, but the problem is that when there _is_ stale data (unlikely), you can actually do the wrong thing before.
Incrementing the page counter should fix all problems, but it's such a subtle fix (even though it's essentially just a few one-liners) that I'm not going to do it for 2.2.1, which I want to get out later today.
Alan, the only patch I don't have that looks likely for 2.2.1 is the IDE-SCSI thing. Did you have that somewhere?
Right now my 2.2.1 patches are: - the stupid off-by-one bug found by Ingo - __down_interruptible on alpha - move "esstype" to outside a #ifdef MODULE - NFSD rename/rmdir fixes - revert to old array.c - change comment about __PAGE_OFFSET - missing "vma = NULL" case for avl find_vma()
Holler now or forever hold your peace, because I'd like to get the thing out in a few hours.
Linus
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