On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 04:02:40PM -0600, Adam Litke wrote:
> I've come up with a much better idea to resolve the issue I mention
> below. The attached patch changes hugetlb_no_page to allocate unzeroed
> huge pages initially. For shared mappings, we wait until after
> inserting the page into the page_cache succeeds before we zero it. This
> has a side benefit of preventing the wasted zeroing that happened often
> in the original code. The page_lock should guard against someone else
> using the page before it has been zeroed (but correct me if I am wrong
> here). The patch doesn't completely close the race (there is a much
> smaller window without the zeroing though). The next patch should close
> the race window completely.
Looks better to me.
Signed-off-by: William Irwin <[email protected]>
-- wli
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