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| author |   Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> | 2006-03-24 03:18:13 -0800 |
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| committer |   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-03-24 07:33:26 -0800 |
| commit | 707c21c848deeb0200ba3f07e4ba90e6dc419c2f (patch) | |
| tree | d8e8f32916ac1f04e45e42595ddd0ef771ddb1ad /fs/buffer.c | |
| parent | [PATCH] msync(): perform dirty page levelling (diff) | |
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[PATCH] msync(MS_SYNC): don't hold mmap_sem while syncing
It seems bad to hold mmap_sem while performing synchronous disk I/O. Alter
the msync(MS_SYNC) code so that the lock is released while we sync the file.
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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