On 25 Oct 2000, Christoph Rohland wrote:

Just wanted to remind you that swapping shm in highmem is still
broken in the latest patches.

If I return a RETRY in shm_swap_core instead of FAILED for
failures of prepare_highmem_swapout it survives a little bit
longer spewing lots of 'order 0 allocation failed' and then
locks up after doing some swapping. Without this change it
hardly swaps at all before lockup.

Could you test if /normal/ swapping works on highmem
machines?

If it does, it is ipc/shm.c which does the wrong thing
when no bounce buffer could be created...

regards,

Rik
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