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SubjectRe: [lkml]Re: VM problems still in 2.2.18
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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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