Hi
I think that SHM can't work in recent kernels, due to the fact
that We call prepare_highmem_swapout without locking the page (that is
necesary with the new semantics). If we don't do that change, the
page returned by prepare_highmem_swapout will be already
locked and our call to lock will sleep forever.
Later, Juan.
PD. Christoph, could you see if that helps your problems (you are the only
person that I know that use highmem & shm).
--- pre7-8/ipc/shm.c Tue May 9 13:20:26 2000
+++ testing/ipc/shm.c Wed May 10 04:11:00 2000
@@ -1428,6 +1428,7 @@
if (page_count(page_map) != 1)
return RETRY;
+ lock_page(page_map);
if (!(page_map = prepare_highmem_swapout(page_map)))
return FAILED;
SHM_ENTRY (shp, idx) = swp_entry_to_pte(swap_entry);
@@ -1437,7 +1438,6 @@
reading a not yet uptodate block from disk.
NOTE: we just accounted the swap space reference for this
swap cache page at __get_swap_page() time. */
- lock_page(page_map);
add_to_swap_cache(*outpage = page_map, swap_entry);
return OKAY;
}
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