On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 09:25:47PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 12:34:30 +0800
> From: Andrey Savochkin <saw@saw.sw.com.sg>
>
> page_table_lock is supposed to protect normal page table activity (like
> what's done in page fault handler) from swapping out.
> However, grabbing this lock in swap-out code is completely missing!
>
> Audrey, vmlist_access_{un,}lock == unlocking/locking page_table_lock.
>
> You've totally missed this and thus your suggested-patch/analysis
> needs to be reevaluated :-)
Oops
You're of course right.
It looks as if somebody tried to separate this two locks and stopped in the
middle...
Andrey
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