linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] nfs: fix nfs

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Message-ID: <20071017160519.GA9488@infradead.org>
Date:	Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:05:19 +0100
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nfs: fix nfs_writepage()

On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 06:02:45PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > Apparently Peter has some broken patches in his tree that cause this.
> > It can for sure not happen in mainline and that's absolutely intentional.
> 
> Yeah, I got fooled by thinking swapper_space was 'proper' usage.

The swapper space is and always has been special because it's not owned
by a filesystem but rather the VM, so it can be sloppy about some things.

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