[Linux-cluster] Re: GFS

Pekka J Enberg penberg at cs.helsinki.fi
Wed Aug 10 04:48:29 UTC 2005


Zach Brown writes:
> But couldn't we use make_pages_present() to figure which locks we need, 
> sort them, and then grab them?

Doh, obviously we can't as nopage() needs to bring the page in. Sorry about 
that. 

I also thought of another failure case for the vma walk. When a thread uses 
userspace memcpy() between two clusterfs mmap'd regions instead of write() 
or read(). 

              Pekka 




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