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Message-Id: <200710160123.32434.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 01:23:32 +1000 From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au> To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu> Subject: Re: [PATCH resend] ramdisk: fix zeroed ramdisk pages on memory pressure On Monday 15 October 2007 19:16, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:06:19 +1000 Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au> wrote: > > On Monday 15 October 2007 18:28, Christian Borntraeger wrote: > > > Andrew, this is a resend of a bugfix patch. Ramdisk seems a bit > > > unmaintained, so decided to sent the patch to you :-). > > > I have CCed Ted, who did work on the code in the 90s. I found no > > > current email address of Chad Page. > > > > This really needs to be fixed... > > rd.c is fairly mind-boggling vfs abuse. Why do you say that? I guess it is _different_, by necessity(?) Is there anything that is really bad? I guess it's not nice for operating on the pagecache from its request_fn, but the alternative is to duplicate pages for backing store and buffer cache (actually that might not be a bad alternative really). - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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