On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 11:07 -0800, Chen, Kenneth W wrote:
> Sorry, I don't think patch 1 by itself is functionally correct. It opens
> a can of worms with race window all over the place. It does more damage
> than what it is trying to solve. Here is one case:
>
> 1 thread fault on hugetlb page, allocate a non-zero page, insert into the
> page cache, then proceed to zero it. While in the middle of the zeroing,
> 2nd thread comes along fault on the same hugetlb page. It find it in the
> page cache, went ahead install a pte and return to the user. User code
> modify some parts of the hugetlb page while the 1st thread is still
> zeroing. A potential silent data corruption.
I don't think the above case is possible because of find_lock_page().
The second thread would wait on the page to be unlocked by the thread
zeroing it before it could proceed.
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Adam Litke - (agl at us.ibm.com)
IBM Linux Technology Center
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