Messages in this thread | | | From | David Howells <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][patch 0/2] mm: remove PageReserved | Date | Wed, 10 Aug 2005 14:13:33 +0100 |
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Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> > ...kill PG_checked please :) Or at least keep it from spreading. > > > > It already spread - ext3 is using it and I think reiser4. I thought I had > a patch to rename it to PG_misc1 or somesuch, but no. It's mandate becomes > "filesystem-specific page flag".
You're carrying a patch to stick a flag called PG_fs_misc, but that has the same value as PG_checked. An extra page flag beyond PG_uptodate, PG_lock and PG_writeback is required to make readpage through the cache non-synchronous.
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