From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2000 01:58:52 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrea Arcangeli Subject: Re: [patch] take 2 Re: PG_swap_entry bug in recent kernels In-Reply-To: <200004082318.QAA60782@google.engr.sgi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Kanoj Sarcar Cc: Ben LaHaise , riel@nl.linux.org, Linus Torvalds , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Sat, 8 Apr 2000, Kanoj Sarcar wrote: >[..] if you were to send out a list of >the specific races it is fixing. (Something like my above race example). Hug, writing the traces for all the possible races would take me really lots of time. Writing traces is fine for showing _the_ buggy path, but it doesn't seems the right approch for explaning and understanding how some new code works. The comment should explain how the new locking works against swapoff. I'd very much prefer specific questions and comments. Andrea -- 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/