Re: follow_page()

Arjan van de Ven
2004-11-11T12:46:06Z

> Well, if you write into the page returned via follow_page, that
> isn't going to dirty the pte by itself... so it is a bit of a
> hit and miss regarding whether the page really will get dirtied
> through that pte in the near future (I don't know, maybe that
> is generally what happens with normal usage patterns?).

that's why the function has a parameter saying it is for writing too, I
think...

either way this deserves some comments in the code...