Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: set_page_dirty/page_launder deadlock | From | Christoph Rohland <> | Date | 19 Jan 2001 18:44:44 +0100 |
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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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