--On Wednesday, April 02, 2003 15:52:20 -0800 Andrew Morton
<akpm@digeo.com> wrote:
> hmmmm. It also probably needs both compiler barriers and memory barriers.
>
> It does give me creepy feelings. I worry that because nobody uses
> remap_file_pages() yet, we will hit 2.6.25 before discovering that we have
> fundamental VM locking problems which affect $major$ applications.
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.
Dave
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