Re: Major 2.1.x problem index

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 19 Jun 1998 23:43:17 +0100 (BST)


> - Page cache flaws: swapoff does no longer crash on sys5 memory

Ok will fix

> - Swap cache race: I believe Bill's patch should be integrated
> _now_... It has worked for a _long_ time and it is correct.
> - swap deadlock: I saw a fix for this, a few hours ago. It
> will probably be submitted this weekend.
> - swapoff deadlock: Well, it says that the patch was posted. I
> read the patch too, and it looks suspiciously correct to me :)

Yes.. they may have patches but they arent fixed until they (or another
solution) hit the master kernel.

> There's also a separate TODO list for the Linux MM team,
> it's on http://www.phys.uu.nl/~riel/mm-patch/todo.html...
>
> I will include the MM things from your page RSN.
> (mlock, swap cache counters, PGE handling, LDT allocation
> and the mmap security stuff weren't there yet)

Ok

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