Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 5 Nov 2005 22:17:28 -0800 | From | Paul Jackson <> | Subject | Re: Does shmem_getpage==>shmem_alloc_page==>alloc_page_vma hold mmap_sem? |
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Hugh wrote: > It's safe but horrid.
Ok - thanks for the explanation.
Now I don't feel so bad about some of my cpuset locking hacks.
(Yes, Andrew, I'm still looking at my latest hack, the down_write_trylock() call in cpuset.c refresh_mems.)
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