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From: Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux Kernel ORB: kORBit
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> > Imagine that kpiod is slow. try_to_swap_out returns 1 and pretends it
> > freed something but it didn't. It just passed request to kpiod. There are
> > no pages to be freed by shrink_mmap. do_try_to_swap_out calls swap_out
> > several times, then returns. And this repeats again and again.
> 
> kpiod ceased to exist as of 2.2.19pre2

BTW. why didn't you fix SMP race in accessing pte? It's several months old
and quite subtle bug.

Mikulas

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