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Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.2.11.1404181253200.13251@eggly.anvils>
Date:	Fri, 18 Apr 2014 13:01:01 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
To:	Weijie Yang <weijie.yang.kh@...il.com>
cc:	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Weijie Yang <weijie.yang@...sung.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>, shli@...nel.org,
	Bob Liu <bob.liu@...cle.com>,
	Seth Jennings <sjennings@...iantweb.net>,
	Heesub Shin <heesub.shin@...sung.com>,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/8] mm/swap: prevent concurrent swapon on the same
 S_ISBLK blockdev

On Fri, 18 Apr 2014, Weijie Yang wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 12:20 PM, Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Truly, I am fed up with silly swapon/swapoff races.  How often does
> >> anyone call these things?  Let's slap a huge lock around the whole
> >> thing and be done with it?
> >
> > That answer makes me sad: we can't be bothered to get it right,
> > even when Weijie goes to the trouble of presenting a series to do so.
> > But I sure don't deserve a vote until I've actually looked through it.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> This is a ping email. Could I get some options about these patch series?

Sorry, this is no more than a pong in return: I've not lost or
forgotten these, I shall get to them, but priorities intervene.

Hugh
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