From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <20001013125013.A9180@saw.sw.com.sg> Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 12:50:13 +0800 From: Andrey Savochkin Subject: Re: Updated Linux 2.4 Status/TODO List (from the ALS show) References: <20001013123430.A8823@saw.sw.com.sg> <200010130425.VAA11538@pizda.ninka.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <200010130425.VAA11538@pizda.ninka.net>; from "David S. Miller" on Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 09:25:47PM Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: "David S. Miller" Cc: davej@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, tytso@mit.edu, torvalds@transmeta.com List-ID: On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 09:25:47PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 12:34:30 +0800 > From: Andrey Savochkin > > page_table_lock is supposed to protect normal page table activity (like > what's done in page fault handler) from swapping out. > However, grabbing this lock in swap-out code is completely missing! > > Audrey, vmlist_access_{un,}lock == unlocking/locking page_table_lock. > > You've totally missed this and thus your suggested-patch/analysis > needs to be reevaluated :-) Oops You're of course right. It looks as if somebody tried to separate this two locks and stopped in the middle... Andrey -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/