Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 02 Apr 2003 17:58:08 -0600 | From | Dave McCracken <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.5.66-mm2] Fix page_convert_anon locking issues |
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--On Wednesday, April 02, 2003 15:52:20 -0800 Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com> wrote:
> hmmmm. It also probably needs both compiler barriers and memory barriers. > > It does give me creepy feelings. I worry that because nobody uses > remap_file_pages() yet, we will hit 2.6.25 before discovering that we have > fundamental VM locking problems which affect $major$ applications.
It's looking more and more like we should use your other suggestion. It's definitely simpler if we can make it failsafe. I'll code it up tomorrow.
Dave
====================================================================== Dave McCracken IBM Linux Base Kernel Team 1-512-838-3059 dmccr@us.ibm.com T/L 678-3059
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