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From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: Andrey Savochkin <saw@saw.sw.com.sg>
Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: page_table_lock problem [was: Re: 2.4 / 2.5 VM plans]
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 14:32:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000706143251.C4237@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20000706155123.A11504@saw.sw.com.sg>; from saw@saw.sw.com.sg on Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 03:51:23PM +0800

Hi,

On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 03:51:23PM +0800, Andrey Savochkin wrote:
> 
> I've looked at RSS updates in 2.4.0 kernels.
> You're right, they are not protected enough from
> concurrent updates from mm paths (mmap, page fault handler) and swapout
> path.  Moreover, I found that page_table_lock which is supposed to serialize
> page table updates from mm and swapout paths isn't taken in the later at all!
> Is it a bug or am I missing something?

Sorry, I don't have time to look closely at this right now --- I'm
swamped with travel and ext3 work, and I've just moved house...

Cheers,
 Stephen
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      reply	other threads:[~2000-07-06 13:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-06-25  3:51 2.4 / 2.5 VM plans Rik van Riel
2000-06-28 17:45 ` vii
2000-06-28 21:04   ` Juan J. Quintela
2000-06-28 21:17 ` Juan J. Quintela
2000-06-29 13:45   ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-06-29 13:44 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-07-06  7:51   ` page_table_lock problem [was: Re: 2.4 / 2.5 VM plans] Andrey Savochkin
2000-07-06 13:32     ` Stephen C. Tweedie [this message]

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