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To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: page_launder() bug
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Marcelo Tosatti writes:
 > You want writepage() to check/clean the referenced bit and move the page
 > to the active list itself ?

Well, that's the other part of what my patch was doing.

Let me state it a different way, how is the new writepage() framework
going to do things like ignore the referenced bit during page_launder
for dead swap pages?

Later,
David S. Miller
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