Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 06 Nov 2000 19:00:51 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | swapout vs. filemap_sync_pte...? |
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The address_space::writepage callback is called from try_to_swap_out() path, and also from the filemap_sync_pte() path. There appears to be no way to tell the difference between the two callers. This is not good because the semantics are very different: "sync this page" versus "page is going away".
Should address_space::writepage get passed an additional arg, indicating the caller? Should filemap_sync_pte call address_space::sync_page instead of ::writepage?
Either way, this allows the writepage function to know whether it really needs to store the page, because it is going away, or not.
I will admit I might be missing something obvious... I'm pretty new to this part of the code.
Jeff
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