On Mon, 15 May 2000, Trond Myklebust wrote:
>
> Would the following compromise be acceptable? It differs from Andreas
> previous attempt by the extra line which clears PG_uptodate on the
> page.
It touches the "Uptodate" bit without holding the page lock, which means
that there could be any number of random races causing undefined
behaviour..
I'd rather not do this. I see the logic to it, but I also feel that it is
definitely the wrong thing to do.
It also means that you might have a page mapped even though it is marked
not-up-todate, which sounds very wrong.
Linus
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