From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: david@gibson.dropbear.id.au, kenneth.w.chen@intel.com,
wli@holomorphy.com, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [patch] hugetlb strict commit accounting - v3
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 21:48:46 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060309214846.64943f60.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060309213957.211aaec9.akpm@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
>
> > > private_list and private_lock are available for use by the subsystem which
> > > owns this mapping's address_space_operations. ie: hugetlbfs.
> >
> > If that's so, why is clear_inode messing with it?
> >
>
> Oh. It's being bad.
That doesn't rule out reuse. It just means that only buffer_head users are
allowed to run clear_inode() with a non-empty list.
So it's bad, but not fatally so.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-10 5:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-10 3:14 Chen, Kenneth W
2006-03-10 4:37 ` 'David Gibson'
2006-03-10 4:46 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-10 4:50 ` 'David Gibson'
2006-03-10 5:39 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-10 5:48 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-03-20 15:35 ` Adam Litke
2006-03-20 18:48 Chen, Kenneth W
2006-03-20 20:21 ` Adam Litke
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