> (cc's reinstated)
>
> On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 09:09:50 +0100 Miklos Szeredi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > There's a race in clear_page_dirty_for_io() that allows a page to have
> > cleared PG_dirty, while being mapped read-write into the page table(s).
>
> I assume you refer to this:
>
>
(cc's reinstated)
On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 09:09:50 +0100 Miklos Szeredi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There's a race in clear_page_dirty_for_io() that allows a page to have
> cleared PG_dirty, while being mapped read-write into the page table(s).
I assume you refer to this:
*
(cc's reinstated)
On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 09:09:50 +0100 Miklos Szeredi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There's a race in clear_page_dirty_for_io() that allows a page to have
cleared PG_dirty, while being mapped read-write into the page table(s).
I assume you refer to this:
* FIXME!
(cc's reinstated)
On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 09:09:50 +0100 Miklos Szeredi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There's a race in clear_page_dirty_for_io() that allows a page to have
cleared PG_dirty, while being mapped read-write into the page table(s).
I assume you refer to this:
*
On Tue, 06 Mar 2007 19:04:44 +0100
Miklos Szeredi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Fix race in clear_page_dirty_for_io() as suggested by Linus.
please describe this race.
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From: Miklos Szeredi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Fix race in clear_page_dirty_for_io() as suggested by Linus.
Split the page dirtying into two phases:
1) done for each dirtying attempt
2) done only when the page's dirty flag changed from clean to dirty
For 1 a_ops->set_page_dirty() is used
From: Miklos Szeredi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fix race in clear_page_dirty_for_io() as suggested by Linus.
Split the page dirtying into two phases:
1) done for each dirtying attempt
2) done only when the page's dirty flag changed from clean to dirty
For 1 a_ops-set_page_dirty() is used (couldn't
On Tue, 06 Mar 2007 19:04:44 +0100
Miklos Szeredi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Fix race in clear_page_dirty_for_io() as suggested by Linus.
please describe this race.
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