Re: [patch] hugetlb strict commit accounting - v3

Andrew Morton
2006-03-10T05:48:46Z

Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
>
> > > private_list and private_lock are available for use by the subsystem which
> > > owns this mapping's address_space_operations. ie: hugetlbfs.
> >
> > If that's so, why is clear_inode messing with it?
> >
>
> Oh. It's being bad.

That doesn't rule out reuse. It just means that only buffer_head users are
allowed to run clear_inode() with a non-empty list.

So it's bad, but not fatally so.