Re: [PATCH 2/2] Futex non-page-pinning fix

[William Lee Irwin III]

William Lee Irwin III <wli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> except you have the usual intractable disaster
>>  whenever file-backed pages are anonymized via truncate().

On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 03:44:58AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> They only arose due to races between major faults and truncate.
> That got fixed.

Then it sounds relatively easy to localize the search structure (if you
care to do so), apart from a policy decision about what on earth to do
about waiters on truncated futexes.


-- wli
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