Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 21 Nov 2001 10:17:07 -0200 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.14 + Bug in swap_out. |
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On 20 Nov 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> writes: > > > I do not agree with your analysis. > > Neither do I now but not for your reasons :) > > I looked again we are o.k. but just barely. mmput explicitly checks > to see if it is freeing the swap_mm, and fixes if we are. It is a > nasty interplay with the swap_mm global, but the code is correct.
To be honest I don't see the reason for this subtle playing with swap_mm in mmput(), since the refcounting should mean we're safe.
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