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Subjectswap & deadlocks [was Re: Encrypted Swap]
Hi!

> > I was just searching for swap-encryption-solutions in the lkml-archive.
> > Did I get the point saying ther's no way to do swap encryption
> > in linux right now? (Well, a swapfile in an encrypted kerneli
> > partition r something like that is not really what I want to
> > do I think).
>
> cryptoloop on the blkdev or filebacked should work just fine. However it
> will increase memory pressure and it increases the probability for a
> deadlock (but normal 2.4 swap activities can deadlock anyways if you do
> the math).

Can you show me the math? I guess this should be fixed...
Pavel
OTOH if it is not fixed, I can forget about nbd swap deadlocks --they too
happen only seldom ;-)

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