From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix swapin race condition
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 13:02:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100903130259.b7dd8da5.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100903153958.GC16761@random.random>
On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 17:39:58 +0200
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> wrote:
> The pte_same check is reliable only if the swap entry remains pinned
> (by the page lock on swapcache). We've also to ensure the swapcache
> isn't removed before we take the lock as try_to_free_swap won't care
> about the page pin.
What were the end-user-observeable effects of this bug?
Do we think the fix should be backported into earlier kernels?
Thanks.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-03 20:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-03 15:39 [PATCH] fix swapin race condition Andrea Arcangeli
2010-09-03 20:02 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2010-09-04 12:29 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2010-09-03 23:57 ` Rik van Riel
2010-09-06 2:35 ` Hugh Dickins
2010-09-15 23:02 ` Hugh Dickins
2010-09-15 23:42 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2010-09-16 0:10 ` Hugh Dickins
2010-09-16 21:03 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2010-09-16 21:08 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2010-09-17 2:31 ` Hugh Dickins
2010-09-18 13:19 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2010-09-20 2:35 ` Hugh Dickins
2010-09-20 2:40 ` [PATCH] mm: further " Hugh Dickins
2010-09-20 3:09 ` Rik van Riel
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-07-09 0:23 [PATCH] " Andrea Arcangeli
2010-07-09 20:32 ` Hugh Dickins
2010-07-09 21:19 ` Hugh Dickins
2010-07-09 22:02 ` Rik van Riel
2010-07-13 1:08 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2010-07-13 21:30 ` Hugh Dickins
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