From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com
Cc: hugh@veritas.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.18(19) swapcache oops
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 21:40:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D5C823A.4850F8B5@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20020816.131922.730554388.nomura@hpc.bs1.fc.nec.co.jp
j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com wrote:
>
> Thank you for the solutions.
> Your first patch seems to fix the problem in 2.4.
You must have been able to reproduce it quite quickly. But the
code has been like that for ages. Why is that? Are you testing
on an unusual machine?
> As to the second fix from 2.5.32, it can't be applicable to 2.4, can it?
> try_to_swap_out() may call add_to_swap_cache() with PG_lru page.
Ah, good point. In 2.5, add_to_page_cache() does not add the
page to the LRU. Anonymous pages are already there, and we
don't need to do that. The first patch should be OK.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-16 4:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-15 12:39 2.4.18(19) swapcache oops j-nomura
2002-08-15 14:32 ` Hugh Dickins
2002-08-15 20:05 ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-15 20:21 ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-16 4:19 ` j-nomura
2002-08-16 4:40 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-08-16 8:07 ` j-nomura
2002-08-15 22:59 ` Hugh Dickins
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