Re: Memory leak in 2.0.33 ??

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Tue, 23 Dec 1997 13:33:49 -0800 (PST)

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On Tue, 23 Dec 1997, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> I'd like to apply the patch, but I'd really like to be absolutely sure it
> cannot ever result in "disassociating" a page that really _is_ shared (not
> just COW) between two processes..

Duh. I should have thought a bit more about this, the swap code at that
point obviously only works for private mappings, and the case I thought
about was an issue only a long time ago when we had some rather strange
code to handle swap-out of shmem areas..

Linus

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