> You can have two points of the kernel that are sleeping waiting to alloc
> memory for a cache page at the same time.
So what? One wakes up, finds the same pointer it stashed away ==> Installs
new page (changing pointer) via short way. Second wakes up, finds pointer
changed ==> goes long way to do its job.
Or am I overlooking something stupid?
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