Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: 2.4.0-test10-pre3:Oops in mm/filemap.c:filemap_write_pa | | From | Trond Myklebust <> | | Date | 20 Oct 2000 02:02:04 +0200 |
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>>>>> " " == Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> writes:
> invalidate_inode_pages nfs_zap_caches nfs_lock fcntl_setlk > do_fcntl sys_fcntl
> So I guess that NFS locking is really bad if the region is > mmapped!
Yep, but that's a symptom, not a cause. We want to be able to run invalidate_inode_pages() safely at any moment, since the need can be triggered externally (because the server and client page caches disagree).
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