From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Kanoj Sarcar <kanoj@google.engr.sgi.com>
Cc: Ben LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>,
riel@nl.linux.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [patch] take 2 Re: PG_swap_entry bug in recent kernels
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 02:04:06 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0004080154030.2121-100000@alpha.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200004072012.NAA10407@google.engr.sgi.com>
On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Kanoj Sarcar wrote:
>are unneeded when you consider the kernel_lock is already held in most
>of those paths.[..]
Good point. However I'm not thinking and I'm not going to think with the
big kernel lock in mind in the paths where we incidentally hold the big
kernel lock because somebody _else_ still needs it (like with
acquire_swap_page/get_swap_page/swap_free). The setting of SWP_USED in
swapoff have to be done inside the critical section protected by the
swaplist lock. That was at least a conceptual bug even if it couldn't
trigger due swap_out and swapoff that both holds the big kernel lock.
Andrea
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Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-04-03 22:22 Ben LaHaise
2000-04-04 15:06 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-04-04 15:46 ` Rik van Riel
2000-04-04 16:50 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-04-04 17:06 ` Ben LaHaise
2000-04-04 18:03 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-04-06 22:11 ` [patch] take 2 " Ben LaHaise
2000-04-07 10:45 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-04-07 11:29 ` Rik van Riel
2000-04-07 12:00 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-04-07 12:54 ` Rik van Riel
2000-04-07 13:14 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-04-07 20:12 ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-04-07 23:26 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-04-08 0:11 ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-04-08 0:37 ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-04-08 13:20 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-04-08 21:39 ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-04-08 23:02 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-04-08 23:18 ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-04-08 23:58 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-04-08 13:30 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-04-08 17:39 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-04-07 23:54 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-04-08 0:15 ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-04-08 13:14 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-04-08 21:47 ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-04-08 23:10 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-04-08 23:21 ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-04-08 23:39 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-04-09 0:40 ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-04-10 8:55 ` andrea
2000-04-11 2:45 ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-04-11 16:22 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-04-11 17:40 ` Rik van Riel
2000-04-11 18:20 ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-04-21 18:23 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-04-21 21:00 ` Rik van Riel
2000-04-22 1:12 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-04-22 1:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-04-22 18:29 ` Rik van Riel
2000-04-22 19:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-04-11 18:26 ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-04-10 19:10 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-04-08 0:04 ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
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2000-04-23 0:52 ` Andrea Arcangeli
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2000-04-23 16:07 ` Andrea Arcangeli
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