Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 20 Sep 2001 18:20:39 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.4.10-pre11 |
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On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> It's not that insane: the address space is allocated at open time. > After you drop it with BLKFLSBUF you will have to open the device again > to reallocate a new address space. I could just truncate the physical > address space, there are no other users, but then the inode would remain > pinned forever, and so until we include your ipinning fix this looked an > acceptable two liner band-aid I guess (again, real fix is yours, all I'm > saying is that it can't oops any longer ;).
OK. Could you resend your patch (or just the page initialization parts of it)? I'm getting to the point where I'll start seriously touching rd.c, so...
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