Re: 2.4.14 + Bug in swap_out.

Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Wed, 21 Nov 2001 10:17:07 -0200 (BRST)

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.

Rik

-- 
Shortwave goes a long way:  irc.starchat.net  #swl


http://www.surriel.com/		http://distro.conectiva.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/