From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965094AbVHJNOo (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Aug 2005 09:14:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965097AbVHJNOo (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Aug 2005 09:14:44 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:55000 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965094AbVHJNOo (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Aug 2005 09:14:44 -0400 From: David Howells In-Reply-To: <20050808145430.15394c3c.akpm@osdl.org> References: <20050808145430.15394c3c.akpm@osdl.org> <42F57FCA.9040805@yahoo.com.au> <200508090710.00637.phillips@arcor.de> <200508090724.30962.phillips@arcor.de> To: Andrew Morton Cc: Daniel Phillips , nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, hugh@veritas.com, torvalds@osdl.org, andrea@suse.de, benh@kernel.crashing.org Subject: Re: [RFC][patch 0/2] mm: remove PageReserved X-Mailer: MH-E 7.82; nmh 1.0.4; GNU Emacs 22.0.50.4 Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 14:13:33 +0100 Message-ID: <31567.1123679613@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrew Morton wrote: > > ...kill PG_checked please :) Or at least keep it from spreading. > > > > It already spread - ext3 is using it and I think reiser4. I thought I had > a patch to rename it to PG_misc1 or somesuch, but no. It's mandate becomes > "filesystem-specific page flag". You're carrying a patch to stick a flag called PG_fs_misc, but that has the same value as PG_checked. An extra page flag beyond PG_uptodate, PG_lock and PG_writeback is required to make readpage through the cache non-synchronous. David