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Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2014 21:41:51 -0400
From: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] define PAGECACHE_TAG_* as enumeration under
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On Fri, Jul 04, 2014 at 11:16:39AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 03, 2014 at 05:52:12PM -0400, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
> > We need the pagecache tags to be exported to userspace later in this
> > series for fincore(2), so this patch moves the definition to the new
> > include file for preparation. We also use the number of pagecache tags,
> > so this patch also adds it.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
> 
> NACK.
> 
> The radix tree tags are deeply internal implementation details.
> They are an artifact of the current mark-and-sweep writeback
> algorithm, and as such should never, ever be exposed to userspace,
> let alone fixed in an ABI we need to support forever more.

Hm, OK, so I'll do whole this series without pagecache tag things.

Thanks,
Naoya Horiguchi