From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [patch 2/10] radix-tree locking fix
Date: Sun, 05 May 2002 13:53:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CD59BD5.964D8BE4@zip.com.au> (raw)
__delete_from_swap_cache modifies the radix tree. We need to take the
lock for writing.
=====================================
--- 2.5.13/mm/swapfile.c~swap-lock-fix Sun May 5 13:31:59 2002
+++ 2.5.13-akpm/mm/swapfile.c Sun May 5 13:31:59 2002
@@ -308,13 +308,13 @@ int remove_exclusive_swap_page(struct pa
retval = 0;
if (p->swap_map[SWP_OFFSET(entry)] == 1) {
/* Recheck the page count with the pagecache lock held.. */
- read_lock(&swapper_space.page_lock);
+ write_lock(&swapper_space.page_lock);
if (page_count(page) - !!PagePrivate(page) == 2) {
__delete_from_swap_cache(page);
SetPageDirty(page);
retval = 1;
}
- read_unlock(&swapper_space.page_lock);
+ write_unlock(&swapper_space.page_lock);
}
swap_info_put(p);
-
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