Re: BUG: might_sleep in /proc/swaps code

[Tim Hockin]

On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 03:03:09AM +0100, viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> OK, here comes.  New semaphore protecting insertions/removals in the
> set of swap components + switch of ->start()/->stop() to the same
> semaphore [fixes deadlocks] + trivial cleanup of ->next().
> 
> See if it works for you...

Well, it stops bitching about might_sleep(), so it solves the obvious
problems.  I'm not in a position to comment about the other complexities of
swapfile.c, so I'll take it on faith that you got it right. :)

Thanks
Tim
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