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Re: [RFT][PATCH] 2.3.10 pre5 SMP/vm fixes
On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Kanoj Sarcar wrote:
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> 3. In mm/memory.c, a new comment claims:
> "The adding of pages is protected by the MM semaphore"
> which is not quite correct, since swapoff does not hold this semaphore.
The fix is to fix swapoff, not to change the comment.
page_table_lock is _not_ going to be added to this path - I refuse to add
locks to common cases just to protect against things that never run in
practice.
Linus
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