From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>,
Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
Subject: Re: strange locking __find_get_swapcache_page()
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 10:16:48 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0107311016130.1188-100000@penguin.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3B668629.34797B3F@zip.com.au>
On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> read_swap_cache_async()? All code paths in that area are
> under lock_kernel().
Ugh. But yes, that would certainly fix the race.
Let's leave it, and fix it for real in 2.5.x
Linus
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-31 17:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-30 19:10 Rik van Riel
2001-07-31 1:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-07-31 9:51 ` Rik van Riel
2001-07-31 10:19 ` Andrew Morton
2001-07-31 17:16 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
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