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authornpiggin@suse.de <npiggin@suse.de>2009-08-20 20:35:05 +0400
committeral <al@dizzy.pdmi.ras.ru>2009-09-24 16:41:47 +0400
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truncate: new helpers
Introduce new truncate helpers truncate_pagecache and inode_newsize_ok. vmtruncate is also consolidated from mm/memory.c and mm/nommu.c and into mm/truncate.c. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ Note: PTL can also be used to guarantee that no new clones using the
mm start up ... this is a loose form of stability on mm_users. For
example, it is used in copy_mm to protect against a racing tlb_gather_mmu
single address space optimization, so that the zap_page_range (from
-vmtruncate) does not lose sending ipi's to cloned threads that might
+truncate) does not lose sending ipi's to cloned threads that might
be spawned underneath it and go to user mode to drag in pte's into tlbs.
swap_lock