linux-kernel - Re: [patch] mm: tiny-shmem fix lor, mmap_sem vs i

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Message-Id: <1222280971.4425.42.camel@calx>
Date:	Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:29:31 -0500
From:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
To:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>, Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Dave Hansen <haveblue@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] mm: tiny-shmem fix lor, mmap_sem vs i_mutex


On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 19:18 +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de> wrote:
> 
> > RFC Quick patch to fix nommu anonymous shared memory without breaking
> > locking...
> 
> That works:

Great.

Is there any reason I shouldn't use truncate() in regular shmem.c if I
were to unify the two files?

-- 
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.

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