Re: 2.2.17pre10 pauses fixed by Andrea's VM-global-patch-1

From: Olaf Titz (olaf@bigred.inka.de)
Date: Sun Jul 09 2000 - 12:02:55 EDT

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> The deadlock can be exploited for example by mapping a large MAP_SHARED
> file and loading the VM with dirty pages belonging to the mapping and
> writ(2)ing to the mapped file at the same time a swapped out memory area

I'm not sure that no version of INN exists which shows exactly this
access pattern.

Olaf

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