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From: Ben LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
To: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: [PATCH] another thinko in memory.c (fwd)
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 18:08:56 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0104051808390.2151-100000@today.toronto.redhat.com> (raw)

Ooops, forgot to cc...

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Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 18:05:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ben LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
To: torvalds@transmeta.com, alan@redhat.com
Cc: arjanv@redhat.com
Subject: [PATCH] another thinko in memory.c

Hey folks,

Ingo spotted this one, and it's the same kind of smp race.

		-ben

diff -ur v2.4.3/mm/memory.c work-2.4.3/mm/memory.c
--- v2.4.3/mm/memory.c	Thu Apr  5 11:53:46 2001
+++ work-2.4.3/mm/memory.c	Thu Apr  5 16:27:08 2001
@@ -859,9 +859,12 @@
 		 * the swap cache, grab a reference and start using it.
 		 * Can not do lock_page, holding page_table_lock.
 		 */
-		if (!PageSwapCache(old_page) || TryLockPage(old_page))
+		if (!PageSwapCache(old_page))
 			break;
-		if (is_page_shared(old_page)) {
+		if (TryLockPage(old_page))
+			break;
+		/* Recheck swapcachedness: this is a triggerable smp race. */
+		if (!PageSwapCache(old_page) || is_page_shared(old_page)) {
 			UnlockPage(old_page);
 			break;
 		}


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