From: Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: set_page_dirty/page_launder deadlock
Date: 19 Jan 2001 18:44:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <qww4ryv308j.fsf@sap.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10101141054530.4086-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
Hi Linus,
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Well, as the new shm code doesn't return 1 any more, the whole
> locked page handling should just be deleted. ramfs always just
> re-marked the page dirty in its own "writepage()" function, so it
> was only shmfs that ever returned this special case, and because of
> other issues it already got excised by Christoph..
No, that's not completely right. There may be rare cases like out of
swap that shmem_write does return 1. But couldn't it simply set the
page dirty like ramfs_writepage?
Greetings
Christoph
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-01-19 17:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-14 3:21 set_page_dirty/page_launder deadlock Marcelo Tosatti
2001-01-14 13:27 ` David S. Miller
2001-01-14 18:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-17 19:57 ` Chris Mason
2001-01-19 17:44 ` Christoph Rohland [this message]
2001-01-23 18:28 ` Hugh Dickins
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