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


On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Note that if there really are only 9 "nopage" routines, then it is a lot
> easier to just add the single "SetPageUptodate(page)" into those 9
> routines, and thus let the VM know of the race.

Works for me. And yes, the list of ->nopage instances that can return
success is that short:
drm_vm_shm_nopage
drm_vm_shm_nopage_lock
drm_vm_dma_nopage
sgi_graphics_nopage
via_mm_nopage
ncp_file_mmap_nopage
shm_nopage
shmzero_nopage
filemap_nopage
- sorry, it's not 9+filemap_nopage, it's 8+filemap_nopage.

However, it still leaves a window for the race: we invalidate first and
remove from pagetables later. And ClearPageUptodate() is obviously
truncate_inode_pages() work. Grr...

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