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Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 22:27:54 +0100
From: Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@ithnet.com>
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Subject: Re: Google's mm problem - not reproduced on 2.4.13
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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

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