On 05/21/2015 03:53 PM, Daniel Phillips wrote: > On Wednesday, May 20, 2015 8:51:46 PM PDT, David Lang wrote: >> how do you prevent it from continuing to interact with the old version >> of the page and never see updates or have it's changes reflected on >> the current page? > > Why would it do that, and what would be surprising about it? Did > you have a specific case in mind?
After a get_page(), page_cache_get(), or other equivalent function, a piece of code has the expectation that it can continue using that page until after it has released the reference count. This can be an arbitrarily long period of time. -- All rights reversed -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
