linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Fix dirty page accounting in redirty_page_for

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Date:	Mon, 4 May 2009 10:10:13 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To:	Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>
cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>, thomas.pi@...or.dea,
	Yuriy Lalym <ylalym@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	ltt-dev@...ts.casi.polymtl.ca
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix dirty page accounting in
 redirty_page_for_writepage()

On Sun, 3 May 2009, Tejun Heo wrote:

> One problem I have with the above api is that those take the variable
> symbol not pointer to it, so they can't be used with dynamic
> variables.  The api needs major revisions anyway regarding atomicity

Thanks. I missed making that point.
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