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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: page flags ?
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 14:56:44 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050518145644.717afc21.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1116450834.26913.1293.camel@dyn318077bld.beaverton.ibm.com>

Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> Does anyone know what this page-flag is used for ? I see some
> references to this in AFS. 
> 
> Is it possible for me to use this for my own use in ext3 ? 
> (like delayed allocations ?) Any generic routines/VM stuff
> expects me to use this only for a specific purpose ?
> 
> #define PG_fs_misc               9      /* Filesystem specific bit */
> 

It's identical to PG_checked, added by David Howells'
provide-a-filesystem-specific-syncable-page-bit.patch

IIRC we decided to expand the definition of PG_checked to mean
"a_ops-private, fs-defined page flag".  I guess if/when that patch is
merged we'll do a kernel-wide s/PG_checked/PG_fs_misc/.

And ext3 is already using that flag.
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-18 21:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-18 21:13 page flags ? Badari Pulavarty
2005-05-18 21:56 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2005-05-18 22:42   ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-05-18 23:23     ` Andrew Morton
2005-05-19  0:09       ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-05-19  0:26         ` Chandra Seetharaman
2005-05-19  1:36         ` Dave Hansen
2005-05-19 10:51       ` Andy Whitcroft
2005-05-19 11:11         ` Andrew Morton
2005-05-19 14:37           ` Nikita Danilov
2005-05-19 18:29           ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-05-19 22:53             ` Andrew Morton
2005-05-19 23:34               ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-05-20  0:03                 ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-05-19 23:55                   ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-05-20  0:20                     ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-05-18 23:57     ` Bryan Henderson

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