Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Sun, 10 Jan 1999 20:03:41 +0100 (CET) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: MM deadlock [was: Re: arca-vm-8...] |
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On Sun, 10 Jan 1999, Alan Cox wrote:
> Suspect makes me kind of nervous. Especially so close to 2.2 and given the > normal results of making a bad file system error.
Another way to fix the thing could be to left only to kswapd the work to sync shared-mmapped page out to disk when needed. We could wakeup kswapd from the inside of filemap_swapout... It's dirty but should work fine without the need of reentrant semaphores. BTW, before my always-async-swapout idea kswapd was hiding the bug pretty well ;).
Personally I like far more the clean solution but...
Andrea Arcangeli
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