From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759477AbXK1VxK (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:53:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755672AbXK1Vw5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:52:57 -0500 Received: from mg.nix.la ([75.126.232.227]:59209 "EHLO mg.nix.la" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755166AbXK1Vw5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:52:57 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 1822 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:52:57 EST From: Anton Petrusevich To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH] mm/page-writeback - highmem_is_dirtyable option (replacesdirty_highmem patch) Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 22:22:29 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200711282222.30004.casus@casus.us> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Well, it was quick enough to just do - here's the patch. I've > also updated the documentation a bit to clarify the intention and > the reasons why you might want to use it (based in part on the > comments to the original change that made highmem uncountable for > dirtyness purposes) > Tested and applied against 2.6.23.9 (our build script makes Debian > packages from a clean unpack of kernel major plus patch minor plus > svn checkout of out quilt series and apply regardless, so it was > just as easy to bump the version number while I was at it). > Builds, boots, passes a quick run of the test program I used last > time around. > Bron. Thanks Bron! I can use vmware again! -- Anton Petrusevich