Re: 2.4.14 + Bug in swap_out.

Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Wed, 21 Nov 2001 12:20:23 -0200 (BRST)


On 21 Nov 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> We only hold a ref count for the duration of swap_out_mm.
> Not for the duration of the value in swap_mm.

In that case, why can't we just take the next mm from
init_mm and just "roll over" our mm to the back of the
list once we're done with it ?

Removing magic is good ;)

regards,

Rik

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