From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: Kanoj Sarcar <kanoj@google.engr.sgi.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
Subject: Re: [RFT][PATCH] 2.3.10 pre5 SMP/vm fixes
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 10:00:30 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9907080959220.6648-100000@penguin.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199907080719.AAA00822@google.engr.sgi.com>
On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Kanoj Sarcar wrote:
>
> *****************************************************************
> 3. In mm/memory.c, a new comment claims:
> "The adding of pages is protected by the MM semaphore"
> which is not quite correct, since swapoff does not hold this semaphore.
The fix is to fix swapoff, not to change the comment.
page_table_lock is _not_ going to be added to this path - I refuse to add
locks to common cases just to protect against things that never run in
practice.
Linus
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-07-08 17:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-07-08 7:19 Kanoj Sarcar
1999-07-08 17:00 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
1999-07-08 18:03 ` Kanoj Sarcar
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