--On Wednesday, April 02, 2003 17:58:08 -0600 Dave McCracken
<dmccr@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> It's looking more and more like we should use your other suggestion. It's
> definitely simpler if we can make it failsafe. I'll code it up tomorrow.
I thought of a big hole in the simpler scheme you suggested. It occurred
to me that try_to_unmap will fail. It will see the PageAnon flag so it'll
just walk the pte_chain and assume it doesn't have to walk the vmas. This
will leave the page with some stranded mappings. Actually
page_convert_anon will then finish, and we'll have a page where
try_to_unmap claims it has succeeded but still has mappings.
Dave McCracken
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