From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by vger.rutgers.edu id <972117-5431>; Fri, 10 Jul 1998 12:45:29 -0400 Received: from haymarket.ed.ac.uk ([129.215.128.53]:53341 "EHLO haymarket.ed.ac.uk" ident: "NO-IDENT-SERVICE[2]") by vger.rutgers.edu with ESMTP id <972177-5431>; Fri, 10 Jul 1998 12:16:58 -0400 Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 14:34:32 +0100 Message-Id: <199807101334.OAA00877@dax.dcs.ed.ac.uk> From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Bill Hawes Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" , ganesh.sittampalam@magd.ox.ac.uk, Virtual Memory problem report list Subject: Re: Progress! was: Re: Yet more VM writable swap-cached pages In-Reply-To: <35A57732.A7B5DFF@star.net> References: <199807100042.BAA07833@dax.dcs.ed.ac.uk> <35A57732.A7B5DFF@star.net> Sender: owner-linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu Hi, On Thu, 09 Jul 1998 22:06:42 -0400, Bill Hawes said: > In my searches for the problem I had overlooked the interaction > between the PRESENT and PROT_NONE bits. You're not the only one! > Hopefully any remaining swap bugs won't be so hard to track down ... Yep. Ingo and I have been doing a bunch of swapping stress tests with no problems so far, so we're hoping that any other problems that turn up will be due to the use of specific features like PROT_NONE and won't be problems in the underlying swap mechanisms. Well, we can hope, can't we? :) --Stephen - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu