Re: Google's mm problem - not reproduced on 2.4.13

Stephan von Krawczynski
2001-11-02T21:28:22Z

On Fri, 2 Nov 2001 13:13:10 -0800 (PST) Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
wrote:

> - /* Don't swap out areas which are locked down */
> - if (vma->vm_flags & (VM_LOCKED|VM_RESERVED))
> + /* Don't swap out areas which are reserved */
> + if (vma->vm_flags & VM_RESERVED)
> return count;

Although I agree what you said about differences of old and new VM, I believe
the above was not really what Ben intended to do by mlocking. I mean, you swap
them out right now, or not?

Regards,
Stephan