From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail144.messagelabs.com (mail144.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.51]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5483D6B003D for ; Fri, 13 Mar 2009 07:53:28 -0400 (EDT) From: David Howells In-Reply-To: <20090312100049.43A3.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> References: <20090312100049.43A3.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> <20090311170207.1795cad9.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <28c262360903111735s2b0c43a3pd48fcf8d55416ae3@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] NOMMU: Pages allocated to a ramfs inode's pagecache may get wrongly discarded Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:53:02 +0000 Message-ID: <27074.1236945182@redhat.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Minchan Kim , Andrew Morton , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, peterz@infradead.org, Enrik.Berkhan@ge.com, uclinux-dev@uclinux.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Johannes Weiner , Rik van Riel , Lee Schermerhorn List-ID: KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: > David, Could you please try following patch if you have NOMMU machine? > it is straightforward porting to nommu. Is this patch actually sufficient, though? Surely it requires an alteration to ramfs to mark the page as being unevictable? David -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org