Re: [PATCH] zap_pte_range should not mark non-uptodate pages dirty

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 02:30:04AM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> If you want to shootdown ptes before clearing the bitflag, that's fine

small correction s/before/after/. doing the pte shootdown before
clearing the uptodate bitflag, would still not guarantee to read
uptodate data after the invalidate (a minor page fault could still
happen between the shootdown and the clear_bit; while after clearing the
uptodate bit a major fault hitting the disk and refreshing the pagecache
contents will be guaranteed - modulo bhs, well at least nfs is sure ok
in that respect ;).
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