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Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 22:27:38 -0200 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@marcelothewonderpenguin.com>
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Subject: Re: VM-related Oops: 2.4.15pre1
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On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Well, you also have to check that the page isn't on the LRU list, so it
> would have to be something like
>
> 	!page->mapping && !PageLRU(page)
>
> which I agree is ugly.

I guess we should have "clean up VM locking" in our TODO
list for 2.5, then.  The current combination of 2.0, 2.2
and 2.4 locking makes for rather hard to maintain code ;)

regards,

Rik
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