On Fri, 8 Jan 1999 12:15:39 +0100 (CET), Andrea Arcangeli
<andrea@e-mind.com> said:
> 2.2.0-pre5 doesn't check if the page is under async swapout before
> do a COW. I think it was not harming because shrink_mmap() should be able
> to shrink the orphaned swap cache page. But here the fix:
That's exactly what I meant when I said that a false positive on
is_page_shared doesn't hurt. I don't think it's worth complicating the
code over; we recover perfectly from this case anyway.
--Stephen
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