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    SubjectRe: AIC 5.1.18 _broken_
    Hi,

    On Mon, 19 Jul 1999 17:28:51 +0100 (GMT), Matthew Kirkwood
    <weejock@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk> said:

    > What about another task flag to cope with this? Hunt down the places
    > which do set_fs(KERNEL_DS) and set a flag in the dangerous case.

    > Then the two-liner can examine that flag instead of get_ds().

    There are all sorts of places in the VM where it is possible to end up
    recursing back into the swapout code. I'd be very nervous about opening
    up potential new races in that case, where a recursive IO in the pager
    ended up mistakenly inheriting that flag.

    --Stephen

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