On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 05:08:21PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 11:56:09 -0800
> From: Richard Henderson <rth@cygnus.com>
>
> attached to try_to_swap_out, so that's probably enough not to
> call schedule, but I don't see any such spinlock held. Moreover,
> the comment would seem to indicate it _is_ legal to sleep, so
> long as you indicate that it happened.
>
> No, mm->page_table_lock is held here, and in the vast majority
> of TLB/CACHE flushing calls. In fact Linus and I agreed ...
Then I would appreciate it if someone clarified the commentary.
r~
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