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From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.14 + Bug in swap_out.
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 12:20:23 -0200 (BRST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0111211219420.1491-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1hero1c8o.fsf@frodo.biederman.org>

On 21 Nov 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> We only hold a ref count for the duration of swap_out_mm.
> Not for the duration of the value in swap_mm.

In that case, why can't we just take the next mm from
init_mm and just "roll over" our mm to the back of the
list once we're done with it ?

Removing magic is good ;)

regards,

Rik
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  reply	other threads:[~2001-11-21 14:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-21  6:01 Eric W. Biederman
2001-11-21  6:29 ` David S. Miller
2001-11-21  6:37   ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-11-21 12:17     ` Rik van Riel
2001-11-21 13:31       ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-11-21 14:20         ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2001-11-21 14:21           ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-11-21 12:13 ` Rik van Riel
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.21.0111211515210.1357-100000@localhost.localdomain>
2001-11-21 15:39 ` Rik van Riel
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.21.0111211558160.1394-100000@localhost.localdomain>
2001-11-21 16:26 ` Eric W. Biederman

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