On Mon, 7 May 2001, David S. Miller wrote:
>
> Marcelo Tosatti writes:
> > I just thought about this case:
> >
> > We find a dead swap cache page, so dead_swap_page goes to 1.
> >
> > We call swap_writepage(), but in the meantime the swapin readahead code
> > got a reference on the swap map for the page.
> >
> > We write the page out because "(swap_count(page) > 1)", and we may
> > not have __GFP_IO set in the gfp_mask. Boom.
Yes. That looks a lot easier to trigger than my "slow memory
leak" schenario.
> Hmmm, can't this happen without my patch?
No. The old code would never try to write anything if __GFP_IO wasn't set,
because "launder_loop" would never become non-zero.
Linus
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