Messages in this thread |  | | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Date | Mon, 7 May 2001 16:31:57 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: page_launder() bug |
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Linus Torvalds writes: > > On Mon, 7 May 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > And thats what swap_writepage() is doing: > > Ehh.. swap_writepage() is called with the page locked. So it _can_ depend > on it. > > If the page isn't locked there, then THAT is a bug. A major one.
Linus, he's trying to point out that writepage() will recheck (under lock) what you think my dead_swap_page thing is not checking :-)
My changes always call writepage() and always redo all the checks under the proper locks.
Later, David S. Miller davem@redhat.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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