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From: "Тхай Кирилл" <tkhai@yandex.ru>
To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH]sparc32: Fix impossibility of swap disabling after intensive swap using
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 05:57:19 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <80141272607039@web66.yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100429.165815.235700454.davem@davemloft.net>



29.04.10, 16:58, "David Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>:

> From: Тхай Кирилл 
>  Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 03:28:35 +0400
>  
>  > The problem is that some "big" swap entries corresponds to "none" ptes and
>  > they can't be unused in the function zap_pte_range when program is ending.
>  > The function free_swap_and_cache isn't calls for that swap entries. And
>  > swapoff syscall spin in infinity loop.
>  > I hope my patch can be useful. Kernel version 2.6.33.3.
>  
>  I think we'll need to rearrange the bit usage to fix this instead of turning
>  this off entirely.

Thank you for your reply.
I can mistake, but it seems to me, that pte_none is more wide check, than belonging pte to mmu device. In other case none_mask must be something like 0xF0000004, because hardware ignores ptes with zeroed lower two bits.
Execuse me if I expend your time.

Kirill
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-30  5:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-29 23:58 [PATCH]sparc32: Fix impossibility of swap disabling after David Miller
2010-04-30  5:57 ` Тхай Кирилл [this message]
2010-04-30  6:04 ` Re: Re: [PATCH]sparc32: Fix impossibility of swap disabling after intensive swap using Tkhai Kirill
2010-05-26  6:38 ` [PATCH]sparc32: Fix impossibility of swap disabling after David Miller
2010-05-27 20:28 ` Re: [PATCH]sparc32: Fix impossibility of swap disabling after intensive swap using Tkhai Kirill
2010-05-27 20:41 ` [PATCH]sparc32: Fix impossibility of swap disabling after David Miller

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