Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 9 Nov 2000 23:34:26 -0800 | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Subject | Re: Oddness in i_shared_lock and page_table_lock nesting hierarchies ? |
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From: aprasad@in.ibm.com Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 12:25:24 +0530
this link might be useful http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-mm/2000-07/msg00038.html
This talks about a completely different bug.
We are talking here about inconsistant ordering of lock acquisition when both mapping->i_shared_lock and mm->page_table_lock must be held simultaneously.
The thread you quoted merely mentions the issue we have mm->rss modifications are not always protected properly by the page_table_lock.
There were no previous public discussions about the i_shared_lock/page_table_lock deadlock problems.
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