Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 24 Dec 2000 14:08:25 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: innd mmap bug in 2.4.0-test12 |
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On Sun, 24 Dec 2000, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > It looks like PG_dirty is now being used only for swap_cache pages, and > not for buffer cache and page cache pages, is that correct?
No. PG_dirty is used for all memory mapped pages - be they anonymous or not.
These days the buffer dirty bits are only used by "write()", because write() can obviously dirty smaller areas than one page.
Linus
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