From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from burns.conectiva (burns.conectiva [10.0.0.4]) by perninha.conectiva.com.br (Postfix) with SMTP id 7FA8338CD6 for ; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 11:20:33 -0300 (EST) Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 12:20:23 -0200 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: 2.4.14 + Bug in swap_out. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: "David S. Miller" , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 -- DMCA, SSSCA, W3C? Who cares? http://thefreeworld.net/ http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/