On Tue, 17 Jun 2008, Lee Schermerhorn wrote: > > Now I wonder if the assertion that newpage count == 1 could be violated? > I don't see how. We've just allocated and filled it and haven't > unlocked it yet, so we should hold the only reference. Do you agree? Disagree: IIRC, excellent example of the kind of assumption that becomes invalid with Nick's speculative page references. Someone interested in the previous use of the page may have incremented the refcount, and in due course will find that it's got reused for something else, and will then back off. Hugh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-testers" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
