Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 18 Jan 1999 19:58:07 -0500 (EST) | From | "Albert D. Cahalan" <> | Subject | Re: Removing swap lockmap... |
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Stephen C. Tweedie writes:
> Now that we always keep the swap cache intact in mm/vmscan.c and only > reclaim it in mm/filemap.c, we might in fact be safe omiting the swap > lock. I'd be nervous about it without a _thorough_ audit of the code, > though, as this particular race is hard to reproduce.
Plan: add a printk() for it and wait for someone to notice. If you hear nothing by 2.2.3, get rid of the old crud.
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