Re: [PATCH 3/8] mm/swap: prevent concurrent swapon on the same S_ISBLK blockdev

[Hugh Dickins]

On Fri, 18 Apr 2014, Weijie Yang wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 12:20 PM, Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> Truly, I am fed up with silly swapon/swapoff races.  How often does
> >> anyone call these things?  Let's slap a huge lock around the whole
> >> thing and be done with it?
> >
> > That answer makes me sad: we can't be bothered to get it right,
> > even when Weijie goes to the trouble of presenting a series to do so.
> > But I sure don't deserve a vote until I've actually looked through it.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> This is a ping email. Could I get some options about these patch series?

Sorry, this is no more than a pong in return: I've not lost or
forgotten these, I shall get to them, but priorities intervene.

Hugh
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