Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 1 Dec 2010 17:22:24 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] NFS: Fix a memory leak in nfs_readdir |
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On Wed, 1 Dec 2010 17:05:43 -0800 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > On Wed, 1 Dec 2010 15:31:11 -0800 > > Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > >> > >> Ergo: vmscan has a locked page leads to the filesystem being > >> guaranteed to not be unmounted. __And that, in turn, guarantees that > >> the module won't be unloaded until the machine has gone through an > >> idle cycle. > > > > The page isn't attached to the address_space any more: > > Did you even read the email?
We stopped talking about module unload hours ago. That matter is settled.
What we're talking about is races against memory reclaim, unmount, etc.
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