Re: page_launder() bug

Marcelo Tosatti
2001-05-09T20:19:05Z

On Wed, 9 May 2001, David S. Miller wrote:

>
> Marcelo Tosatti writes:
> > You want writepage() to check/clean the referenced bit and move the page
> > to the active list itself ?
>
> Well, that's the other part of what my patch was doing.
>
> Let me state it a different way, how is the new writepage() framework
> going to do things like ignore the referenced bit during page_launder
> for dead swap pages?

Its not able to ignore the referenced bit.

I know we want that, but I can't see any clean way of doing that.

Suggestions ?