Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 13 Oct 2000 12:50:13 +0800 | From | Andrey Savochkin <> | Subject | Re: Updated Linux 2.4 Status/TODO List (from the ALS show) |
| |
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 09:25:47PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 12:34:30 +0800 > From: Andrey Savochkin <saw@saw.sw.com.sg> > > page_table_lock is supposed to protect normal page table activity (like > what's done in page fault handler) from swapping out. > However, grabbing this lock in swap-out code is completely missing! > > Audrey, vmlist_access_{un,}lock == unlocking/locking page_table_lock. > > You've totally missed this and thus your suggested-patch/analysis > needs to be reevaluated :-)
Oops You're of course right. It looks as if somebody tried to separate this two locks and stopped in the middle...
Andrey - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
|  |