Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [lkml]Re: VM problems still in 2.2.18 | Date | Fri, 15 Dec 2000 18:46:32 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> o don't wait I/O completion to avoid deadlocking on the i_sem > o swap_out returns 1 and memory balancing code so thinks we did progress > in freeing memory and goes to allocate memory from the freelist > without waiting I/O completion > o repeat N times the above
so the actual problem is either - the returning 1 when it is the wrong answer - or the failure to block somewhere else (where its safe) based on a kpiod maintained semaphore ?
> Yes, the same `current' context must run the down/up pair of calls and as you > said it is legal to rely on it on all the places it's used.
I assume thats not an issue to reiserfs ?
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