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Subject: Re: 2.6.18 mmap hangs unrelated apps
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On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 19:17:43 -0500
Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> wrote:

> > (We were supposed to stop doing that about four years ago - change it so
> > that all a_ops must implement ->releasepage, but nobody got around to it).
> 
> Would you still be interested in seeing this done?

Sure, when things calm down.  It's just a cleanup.

There are various places where we got lazy and did this.  ->set_page_dirty,
->page_mkwrite, many others.  With varying degrees of consequential ugliness.