Re: oops if free a locked page

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Tue, 22 Jun 1999 23:33:58 +0200 (CEST)


On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Ingo Molnar wrote:

>> In some SMP-threaded envinronment you can't know if it is the `final'
^^^^
>pagecache get_page()/put_page() are naturally synchronized by the
>pagecache spinlock and the combination of page->inode. Buffer-cache pages

Yes, but I wasn't talking about the pagecache code, it was just to point
out that would make far more sense to Oops also in the case we did a
free_page() on a locked page with reference count > 1.

Andrea Arcangeli

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