On Sun, 7 May 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Hmm.. I thought we did the NULL thing for "writepage" too, but it seems
> that we will actually do the swapout() with a known file every time. I'd
> like to change that some day: we should be able to mark the page dirty in
> "struct page", and then rely on shrink_mmap() to be able to write out a
> page without even knowing who dirtied it.
Erm... What if A had it r/w, B had it r/o and A made it dirty? We _must_
remember who it was - otherwise server has every right to tell us to fsck
off. RPC credentials are RPC credentials...
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