From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263900AbTDDSuP (for ); Fri, 4 Apr 2003 13:50:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263901AbTDDSuP (for ); Fri, 4 Apr 2003 13:50:15 -0500 Received: from [12.47.58.55] ([12.47.58.55]:37128 "EHLO pao-ex01.pao.digeo.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263900AbTDDSuN (for ); Fri, 4 Apr 2003 13:50:13 -0500 Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 11:02:32 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: K-MailNet@yandex.ru Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: question about buffer_head Message-Id: <20030404110232.13fec396.akpm@digeo.com> In-Reply-To: <3E8D692F.000004.30743@ariel.yandex.ru> References: <3E8D692F.000004.30743@ariel.yandex.ru> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.9 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 Apr 2003 19:01:37.0800 (UTC) FILETIME=[9E74D080:01C2FADC] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org "K-MailNet" wrote: > > Hi , > Could anybody explain me what this list content > > buffer_head->b_assoc_buffers > > In the kenel's coments is writen /* associated with another mapping */ > I can't clearly understand it > Does it contents others buffer_heads of the page or thomething else? > There are some comments in fs/buffer.c (search for b_assoc_buffers) and also this changelog: http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.5/user=akpm/cset@1.373.169.4?nav=!-|index.html|stats|!+|index.html|ChangeSet@-2y