Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.4.14 + Bug in swap_out. | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | 21 Nov 2001 07:21:45 -0700 |
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Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> writes:
> 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 ?
Sounds good to me. Unless we have another user for that list.
> Removing magic is good ;)
Definitely. Things that are locally correct are much easier to verify and trust. I'm satisfied for the moment that it isn't actually broken. But more obvious code is definitely a plus if we can get it.
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