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SubjectRe: invalidate_inode_pages in 2.5.32/3
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On Friday 06 September 2002 00:19, Andrew Morton wrote:
> I'm not sure what semantics we really want for this. If we were to
> "invalidate" a mapped page then it would become anonymous, which
> makes some sense.

There's no need to leave the page mapped, you can easily walk the rmap list
and remove the references.

> If the VM wants to reclaim a page, and it has PG_private set then
> the vm will run mapping->releasepage() against the page. The mapping's
> releasepage must try to clear away whatever is held at ->private. If
> that was successful then releasepage() must clear PG_private, decrement
> page->count and return non-zero. If the info at ->private is not
> freeable, releasepage returns zero. ->releasepage() may not sleep in
> 2.5.
>
> So. NFS can put anything it likes at page->private. If you're not
> doing that then you don't need a releasepage. If you are doing that
> then you must have a releasepage().

Right now, there are no filesystems actually doing anything filesystem
specific here, are there? I really wonder if making this field, formerly
known as buffers, opaque to the vfs is the right idea.

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Daniel
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