Please don't drop CCs. Qi, Yanling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Qi, Yanling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > @@ -2571,6 +2572,13 @@ sg_page_malloc(int rqSz, int lowDma, int >> > resp = (char *) __get_free_pages(page_mask, order); >> > /* try half */ >> > resSz = a_size; >> > } >> > + tmppage = virt_to_page(resp); >> > + for( m = PAGE_SIZE; m < resSz; m += PAGE_SIZE ) >> > + { >> > + tmppage++; >> > + SetPageReserved(tmppage); >> > + } >> > + >> > [Qi, Yanling] > If I do a get_page() at sg_page_malloc() time and then do a put_page() > at sg_page_free() time, I worry about a race condition that the page > gets re-used before calling free_pages().
Could you explain what is going to cause this page to be reused if it has a non-zero reference count? Thanks, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html