Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 7 Jan 2001 13:45:14 -0200 (BRDT) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: 2.4 todo list update |
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On 7 Jan 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> writes: > > > The following bugs _could_ be fixed ... I'm not 100% certain > > but they're probably gone (could somebody confirm/deny?): > > > > * mm->rss is modified in some places without holding the > > page_table_lock > > As of linux-2.4.0-test13-pre7 I can confirm that this bug still > exists. The most obvious location is in zap_page_range, there > may be others as well.
Hmm, this is something we really want to check in 2.4.0. Not a showstopper, but something we want to check anyway ;)
regards,
Rik -- Virtual memory is like a game you can't win; However, without VM there's truly nothing to loose...
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