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Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 11:00:13 -0700 (PDT)
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: page_launder() bug
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Rik van Riel writes:
 > Then I'd rather check this in a visible place in page_launder()
 > itself. Granted, this is a special case, but I don't think this
 > one is worth obfuscating the code for...

I think Linus's scheme is just fine, controlling the new 'priority'
argument to writepage() using the referenced bit as an input.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com