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Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 09:47:01 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: innd mmap bug in 2.4.0-test12
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On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:
> 
> I've made a small debugging patch that simply checks
> for this illegal state in add_page_to_active_list and
> add_page_to_inactive_dirty_list.

I bet it won't catch the real bad guy, which almost certainly is the
"remove_from_swap_cache()" thing (it should do a ClearPageDirty() before
it removes it from the swapper_inode mapping).

		Linus

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