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From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: Ben LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [patch] take 2 Re: PG_swap_entry bug in recent kernels
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 09:54:46 -0300 (BRST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0004070950570.23401-100000@duckman.conectiva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0004071356590.325-100000@alpha.random>

On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:
> 
> >Please use the clear_bit() macro for this, the code is
> >unreadable enough in its current state...
> 
> I didn't used the ClearPageSwapEntry macro to avoid executing
> locked asm instructions where not necessary.

Hmmmmm...

Won't this screw up when another processor is atomically
setting the bit just after we removed it and we still have
it in the store queue?

from include/asm-i386/spinlock.h
/*
 * Sadly, some early PPro chips require the locked access,
 * otherwise we could just always simply do
 *
 *      #define spin_unlock_string \
 *              "movb $0,%0"
 *
 * Which is noticeably faster.
 */

I don't know if it is relevant here, but would like to
be sure ...

cheers,

Rik
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  reply	other threads:[~2000-04-07 12:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-04-03 22:22 PG_swap_entry bug in recent kernels Ben LaHaise
2000-04-04 15:06 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-04-04 15:46   ` Rik van Riel
2000-04-04 16:50     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-04-04 17:06       ` Ben LaHaise
2000-04-04 18:03         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-04-06 22:11           ` [patch] take 2 " Ben LaHaise
2000-04-07 10:45             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-04-07 11:29               ` Rik van Riel
2000-04-07 12:00                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-04-07 12:54                   ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2000-04-07 13:14                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-04-07 20:12               ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-04-07 23:26                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-04-08  0:11                   ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-04-08  0:37                     ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-04-08 13:20                       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-04-08 21:39                         ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-04-08 23:02                           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-04-08 23:18                             ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-04-08 23:58                               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-04-08 13:30                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-04-08 17:39                       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-04-07 23:54                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-04-08  0:15                   ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-04-08 13:14                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-04-08 21:47                       ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-04-08 23:10                         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-04-08 23:21                           ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-04-08 23:39                             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-04-09  0:40                               ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-04-10  8:55                                 ` andrea
2000-04-11  2:45                                   ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-04-11 16:22                                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-04-11 17:40                                       ` Rik van Riel
2000-04-11 18:20                                         ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-04-21 18:23                                         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-04-21 21:00                                           ` Rik van Riel
2000-04-22  1:12                                             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-04-22  1:51                                               ` Linus Torvalds
2000-04-22 18:29                                                 ` Rik van Riel
2000-04-22 19:58                                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2000-04-11 18:26                                       ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-04-10 19:10                         ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-04-08  0:04                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
     [not found] <yttem7xstk2.fsf@vexeta.dc.fi.udc.es>
2000-04-23  0:52 ` Andrea Arcangeli
     [not found] <yttk8ho26s8.fsf@vexeta.dc.fi.udc.es>
2000-04-23 16:07 ` Andrea Arcangeli

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