Re: [PATCH 2.5.66-mm2] Fix page_convert_anon locking issues

[Dave McCracken <dmccr@us.ibm.com>]

--On Wednesday, April 02, 2003 15:52:20 -0800 Andrew Morton
<akpm@digeo.com> wrote:

> hmmmm.  It also probably needs both compiler barriers and memory barriers.
> 
> It does give me creepy feelings.  I worry that because nobody uses
> remap_file_pages() yet, we will hit 2.6.25 before discovering that we have
> fundamental VM locking problems which affect $major$ applications.

It's looking more and more like we should use your other suggestion.  It's
definitely simpler if we can make it failsafe.  I'll code it up tomorrow.

Dave

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Dave McCracken          IBM Linux Base Kernel Team      1-512-838-3059
dmccr@us.ibm.com                                        T/L   678-3059

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