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From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>,
	Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>,
	Jeremy Linton <jlinton@interactivesi.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: VM problem with 2.4.8-ac9 (fwd)
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 17:37:00 -0300 (BRST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0108231735480.31410-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E15a16U-0004Yg-00@the-village.bc.nu>

On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Alan Cox wrote:

> > 1. lock_kiovec page unwind fix (velizarb@pirincom.com)
> > 2. copy_cow_page & clear_user_highpage can block in kmap
> >    (Anton Blanchard, Ingo Molnar, Linus Torvalds, Hugh Dickins)

I don't know enough about this code to properly fix it...

> > 3. do_swap_page recheck pte before failing (Jeremy Linton, Linus Torvalds)
> > 4. do_swap_page don't mkwrite when deleting from swap cache (Linus Torvalds)

I'll look at these. I'll carefully merge some of Linus'
stuff here. Careful because Linus seems to be getting
various other things in eg. memory.c wrong and stripped
off the comments of some pieces of code ;)

cheers,

Rik
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  reply	other threads:[~2001-08-23 20:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-08-22 19:25 Rik van Riel
2001-08-22 18:27 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-08-23  8:25   ` Jari Ruusu
2001-08-23 17:35     ` Jari Ruusu
2001-08-23 20:24       ` Hugh Dickins
2001-08-23 20:29         ` Alan Cox
2001-08-23 20:37           ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2001-08-24 17:23         ` Jari Ruusu
2001-08-24 17:41           ` Alan Cox
2001-08-24 18:40             ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-08-24 20:11               ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-25 13:10                 ` Jari Ruusu
2001-08-28 15:49                   ` Jari Ruusu
2001-08-22 21:14 ` Alan Cox
2001-08-22 21:28   ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-22 21:33     ` Alan Cox
2001-08-22 20:03       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-08-22 21:34       ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-23  6:19   ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-08-23 12:53     ` Alan Cox
2001-08-23 13:18     ` Rik van Riel

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