Re: [PATCH] SMP race in ext2 - metadata corruption.

From: Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Date: Fri May 04 2001 - 14:13:57 EST


On Fri, 4 May 2001, Alexander Viro wrote:
>
> ObProcfs: I don't think that walking the page tables is a good way to
> compute RSS, especially since VM maintains the thing.

Well, the VM didn't always use to maintain the stuff it does now, so I bet
that most of the code is just old code that still works.

Feel free to rip it out.

                Linus

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