From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 14:13:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 14:13:07 -0500 Received: from hermes.mixx.net ([212.84.196.2]:47878 "HELO hermes.mixx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 14:12:51 -0500 Message-ID: <3A5B61F7.FB0E79C1@innominate.de> Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 20:09:43 +0100 From: Daniel Phillips Organization: innominate X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [de] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0-test10 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Subtle MM bug In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds wrote: > (This is why I worked so hard at getting the PageDirty semantics right in > the last two months or so - and why I released 2.4.0 when I did. Getting > PageDirty right was the big step to make all of the VM stuff possible in > the first place. Even if it probably looked a bit foolhardy to change the > semantics of "writepage()" quite radically just before 2.4 was released). On the topic of writepage, it's not symmetric with readpage at the moment - it still takes (struct file *). Is this in the cleanup pipeline? It looks like nfs_readpage already ignores the struct file *, but maybe some other net filesystems are still depending on it. -- Daniel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/