On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I think you overlooked the fact that SHM mappings use the page cache, and
> it's ok if such pages are dirty and writable - they will get written out
> by the shm_swap() logic once there are no mappings active any more.
>
> I like the test per se,
On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Ben LaHaise wrote:
>
> The primary reason I added the BUG was that if this is valid, it means
> that the pte has to be removed from the page tables first with
> pte_get_and_clear since it can be modified by the other CPU. Although
> this may be safe for shm, I think it's v
Ben,
you added these two BUG() conditions in your atomic pte patch:
> diff -ur v2.4.0-test10-pre2/mm/vmscan.c work-10-2/mm/vmscan.c
> --- v2.4.0-test10-pre2/mm/vmscan.cFri Oct 13 17:18:37 2000
> +++ work-10-2/mm/vmscan.c Fri Oct 13 17:19:47 2000
> @@ -99,6 +98,10 @@
> if (PageSwa
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