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SubjectRe: innd mmap bug in 2.4.0-test12
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:
> >
> > I've made a small debugging patch that simply checks
> > for this illegal state in add_page_to_active_list and
> > add_page_to_inactive_dirty_list.
>
> I bet it won't catch the real bad guy, which almost certainly is
> the "remove_from_swap_cache()" thing (it should do a
> ClearPageDirty() before it removes it from the swapper_inode
> mapping).

Ohhh indeed. This is a very likely candidate which is
trivial to fix.

regards,

Rik
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