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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next prev parent 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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