Re: VM-related Oops: 2.4.15pre1

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Mon, 19 Nov 2001 13:26:00 -0800 (PST)


On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>
> We ended up talking about the possibility of a reschedule (IRQ) happening
> before after the "spin_unlock(pagecache_lock)" but before the
> "lru_cache_add()".

So?

The worst that happens is that the page is not on the LRU list, which just
means that it won't be free'd until we add it (which we will do when the
lru_cache_add() resumes..

Linus

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