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SubjectRe: 2.4.0-test10-pre3:Oops in mm/filemap.c:filemap_write_pa
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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).

Cheers,
Trond
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