From: Nick Andrew <nick@nick-andrew.net>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>,
Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>,
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix incorrect use of loose in migrate.c
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 00:55:36 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081206135536.GH5957@mail.local.tull.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081206121227.GA6292@wotan.suse.de>
On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 01:12:27PM +0100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > /*
> > * A dirty page may imply that the underlying filesystem has
> > * the page on some queue. So the page must be clean for
> > - * migration. Writeout may mean we loose the lock and the
> > + * migration. Writeout may mean we lose the lock and the
> > * page state is no longer what we checked for earlier.
> > * At this point we know that the migration attempt cannot
> > * be successful.
>
> I don't know... presumably we haven't just gone and lost the little
> bugger. I mean, we were holding it one minute, then... gone? Do we
> have Alzheimer's? Unlikely. I think we loosed it.
Loosen?
Nick.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-06 13:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-05 3:08 Nick Andrew
2008-12-06 12:12 ` Nick Piggin
2008-12-06 13:55 ` Nick Andrew [this message]
2008-12-08 3:46 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
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