Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Dec 2000 09:49:50 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: innd mmap bug in 2.4.0-test12 |
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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
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