Re: oops if free a locked page

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Tue, 22 Jun 1999 19:46:30 +0200 (CEST)


On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Ingo Molnar wrote:

>calling __free_page() with a locked page is fine though - but it must not
>be the 'final' free.

In some SMP-threaded envinronment you can't know if it is the `final'
free.

I'll reinsert the BUG() checking and I'll change the code.

Andrea Arcangeli

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