On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Does it help if you just remove the
>
> if (atomic_read(&page->count) > 2)
> goto out;
>
> from shmem_writepage()?
>
> It _shouldn't_ matter (because writepage() should only be called
> with inactive pages anyway), but your problem certainly sounds like
> your inactive dirty list is not able to write out shmfs pages.
No, it does matter. It prevents races against getpage.
Greetings
Christoph
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