On 11 May 2000, Juan J. Quintela wrote:
> - we change one page_cache_release to put_page in truncate_inode_pages
> (people find lost when they see a get_page without the correspondent
> put_page, and put_page and page_cache_release are synonimops)
put_page() is _not_ synonymous with page_cache_release()!
Imagine a time in the not too distant future when the page cache
granularity is 8kB or 16kB due to better IO performance (possibly
controlled by a config option), and page_cache_release() will do an
"order=1" or "order=2" page free..
Linus
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