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Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2021 11:54:44 -0800
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] mm: restore full accuracy in COW page reuse
On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 4:56 AM Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org> wrote:
>
> Yes, Linus mis-stated it:
Yeah, I got the order wrong.
> ... but as David pointed out, I fixed this in e320d3012d25
.. and I must have seen it, but not really internalized it.
And now that I look at it more closely, I'm actually surprised that
other than the magic "speculative first page" case we don't seem to
use page reference counting for non-order-0 pages (which would break
that hack horribly).
Linus
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