Re: page_mkwrite caller is racy?

Hugh Dickins <[email protected]> wrote:

> > Must it be able to sleep?
> 
> Not as David was using it

It absolutely *must* be able to sleep.  It has to wait for FS-Cache to finish
writing the page to the cache before letting the PTE be made writable.

David
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