Messages in this thread |  | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Alternative raceless page free | Date | Thu, 5 Sep 2002 18:31:45 +0200 |
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On Thursday 05 September 2002 18:04, Christian Ehrhardt wrote: > On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 05:21:31PM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > ...this particular piece of code can no doubt be considerably > > simplified, while improving robustness and efficiency at the same time. > > But that goes beyond the scope of this patch. > > Well yes ;-) There's funny things going on like accessing a page > after page_cache_release...
You're right about that one too, it should be put_page_nofree, since freeing the page there is a bug for two reasons: !!page->mapping tells us there should be a count on the page, and we continue to operate on the page immediately below. Thanks again.
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