Re: [patch 2/5] mm: fault vs invalidate/truncate race fix

[Andrew Morton]

On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:39:22 +1000
Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> But I see that it does read twice. Do you want that behaviour retained? It
> seems like at this level it would be logical to read it once and let lower
> layers take care of any retries?

argh.  Linus has good-sounding reasons for retrying the pagefault-path's
read a single time, but I forget what they are.  Something to do with
networked filesystems?  (adds cc)
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