From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: Rasmus Andersen <rasmus@jaquet.dk>
Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] guard mm->rss with page_table_lock (241p11)
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 19:47:54 -0200 (BRDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0101291946540.1321-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010129224311.H603@jaquet.dk>
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Rasmus Andersen wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 07:30:01PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Rasmus Andersen wrote:
> >
> > > Please comment. Or else I will continue to sumbit it :)
> >
> > The following will hang the kernel on SMP, since you're
> > already holding the spinlock here. Try compiling with
> > CONFIG_SMP and see what happens...
>
> You are right. Sloppy research by me :(
>
> New patch below with the vmscan part removed.
Have you bothered to also check the rest?
Don't be surprised if there are more places
like this. Please compile your kernel with
CONFIG_SMP and test if your changes work
before submitting them into the stable kernel.
regards,
Rik
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-01-29 21:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-29 21:23 Rasmus Andersen
2001-01-29 21:30 ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-29 21:43 ` Rasmus Andersen
2001-01-29 21:47 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2001-01-30 8:18 ` David Howells
2001-01-30 8:31 ` Rasmus Andersen
2001-01-30 14:32 ` Mark Hahn
2001-01-30 15:30 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-01-30 8:39 ` David S. Miller
2001-01-30 11:17 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-01-30 11:23 ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-30 11:38 ` Rasmus Andersen
2001-02-13 3:15 ` george anzinger
2001-02-13 2:05 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-02-13 10:08 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
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