On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Alexander Viro wrote:
> The last one is in deactivate_page_nolock() - there we check the
> ->mapping without pagecache_lock and without page lock. Hell
> knows whether it's a bug or not. Rik?
Shouldn't be a problem, since we'll have the lock at a time
we actually /do/ something with those pointers.
In deactivate_page_nolock(), all we can modify is the list
in which the page resides, the flags indicating on which
list the page is and the referenced bit + page age. No other
stuff is touched.
Furthermore, the locking order (first pagecache lock, then
the page_list_lock) would make it difficult to do this right...
regards,
Rik
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