linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/9] tmpfs: allow filepage alongside swappage

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Date:	Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:51:30 -0500
From:	Erez Zadok <ezk@...sunysb.edu>
To:	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Christoph Rohland <hans-christoph.rohland@....com>,
	Erez Zadok <ezk@...sunysb.edu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/9] tmpfs: allow filepage alongside swappage 

In message <Pine.LNX.4.64.0712182200230.27165@...nde.wat.veritas.com>, Hugh Dickins writes:

>  redirty:
>  	set_page_dirty(page);
> -	return AOP_WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE;	/* Return with the page locked */
> +	if (wbc->for_reclaim)
> +		return AOP_WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE;	/* Return with page locked */
> +	unlock_page(page);
> +	return 0;

Just curious, but didn't you (or someone else) mention that they wanted to
do away with AOP_WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE entirely?  If these patches are for
2.6.25, would that be the right time?

Erez.
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