Re: [PATCH] double flush_page_to_ram

Hugh Dickins (hugh@veritas.com)
Thu, 9 May 2002 14:18:49 +0100 (BST)


On Thu, 9 May 2002, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
> Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 13:03:52 +0100 (BST)
>
> filemap_nopage and shmem_nopage do flush_page_to_ram before returning
> page, but do_no_page also does flush_page_to_ram on any page it slots
> into the user address space. It's memory.c's business, remove it from
> shmem and filemap (and cut outdated comment from when filemap copied).
>
> Wrong, consider the case where we do early COW in do_no_page, you miss
> a flush on the new-new page.

Of course we do, and then we don't map it into user address space;
if it ever gets mapped into user address space later, do_no_page
does the flush_page_to_ram then.

Hugh

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