Re: VFS?VM - mmap/write deadlock

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Fri, 17 Dec 1999 10:32:24 -0500 (EST)


On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Eleonora Autore wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I remember very vaguely Alexander Viro mentioning some easily
> reproducible deadlock when doing mmap followed by write in some specific
> sequence (or a page cache in some specific state?).
>
> Can you please remind me of the scenario - weekend is at hand and one
> needs to do something about it.

Tigran, please wait with that - it will seriously clash with the
address_space patches. Too close to place where active changes happen.

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