linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.18 mmap hangs unrelated apps

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Message-Id: <20061219162208.f96e2fef.akpm@osdl.org>
Date:	Tue, 19 Dec 2006 16:22:08 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
To:	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no>
Cc:	Michal Sabala <lkml@...hbs.net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.18 mmap hangs unrelated apps

On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 19:17:43 -0500
Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no> wrote:

> > (We were supposed to stop doing that about four years ago - change it so
> > that all a_ops must implement ->releasepage, but nobody got around to it).
> 
> Would you still be interested in seeing this done?

Sure, when things calm down.  It's just a cleanup.

There are various places where we got lazy and did this.  ->set_page_dirty,
->page_mkwrite, many others.  With varying degrees of consequential ugliness.
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