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From: Dave McCracken <dmccr@us.ibm.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.5.66-mm2] Fix page_convert_anon locking issues
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 17:58:08 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <116640000.1049327888@baldur.austin.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030402155220.651a1005.akpm@digeo.com>

--On Wednesday, April 02, 2003 15:52:20 -0800 Andrew Morton
<akpm@digeo.com> wrote:

> hmmmm.  It also probably needs both compiler barriers and memory barriers.
> 
> It does give me creepy feelings.  I worry that because nobody uses
> remap_file_pages() yet, we will hit 2.6.25 before discovering that we have
> fundamental VM locking problems which affect $major$ applications.

It's looking more and more like we should use your other suggestion.  It's
definitely simpler if we can make it failsafe.  I'll code it up tomorrow.

Dave

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Dave McCracken          IBM Linux Base Kernel Team      1-512-838-3059
dmccr@us.ibm.com                                        T/L   678-3059

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-04-02 23:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-02 17:13 Dave McCracken
2003-04-02 21:29 ` Andrew Morton
2003-04-02 21:56   ` Dave McCracken
2003-04-02 23:09     ` Andrew Morton
2003-04-02 23:23       ` Dave McCracken
2003-04-02 23:38         ` Andrew Morton
2003-04-02 23:42           ` Dave McCracken
2003-04-02 23:52             ` Andrew Morton
2003-04-02 23:58               ` Dave McCracken [this message]
2003-04-03 14:49                 ` Dave McCracken
2003-04-03 15:38                   ` Hugh Dickins
2003-04-03 16:00                     ` Dave McCracken
2003-04-03 16:33                       ` Hugh Dickins
2003-04-03 16:39                         ` Dave McCracken
2003-04-03 20:00                   ` Andrew Morton
2003-04-03 20:06                   ` Andrew Morton
2003-04-03 20:56                     ` Andrew Morton
2003-04-03 21:01                       ` Dave McCracken
2003-04-02 23:59             ` Hugh Dickins
2003-04-03  0:06         ` Hugh Dickins

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