Re: patch for 2.1.102 swap code

["Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk>]

Hi,

On 11 Jun 1998 09:31:22 -0500, ebiederm+eric@npwt.net (Eric W. Biederman) said:

>>>>>> "ST" == Stephen C Tweedie <sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk> writes:
ST> Hi,
>>> Note: there is a problem with swapoff that should at least be considered.
>>> If you use have a SYSV shared memory, and don't map it into a process,
>>> and that memory get's swapped out, swapoff will not be able to find it.

ST> Thanks; it's added to my list.

> Here is a preliminary patch that should fix the problem.

Thanks; it's queued for attention.  I'm off to Usenix tomorrow, but
I'll be doing lots and lots of VM stuff when I get back (I'm going
full time courtesy of Red Hat --- yay!), so I'll check and test and
then submit to Linus if all looks OK.

--Stephen