Re: innd mmap bug in 2.4.0-test12

Linus Torvalds
2000-12-28T18:20:41Z

On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Daniel Phillips wrote:
>
> It's logical that PageDirty should never be get for ramfs, and a ramfs
> page should never have buffers on it.

What?

No no no.

You're obviously right that ramfs will never have buffers on the page, but
why shouldn't a ramfs page be dirty?

Of _course_ a ramfs page is dirty - that's the only thing that tells the
VM that it can't be thrown out.

Linus