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Re: [PATCH] reapswap for 2.4.5-ac10
On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 04:48:46PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>
> > I'm resending the reapswap patch for inclusion into -ac series.
>
> Isn't it broken in this state? Checking page_count, page->buffers and
> PageSwapCache without the appropriate locks is dangerous.
We hold the pagemap_lru_lock, so there will be no one doing lookups on
this swap page (get_swapcache_page() locks pagemap_lru_lock).
Am I overlooking something here?
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