>>>>> "david" == David Gibson <dgibson@linuxcare.com> writes:
Hi
david> This actually went in somewhat recently, in 2.3.99pre something (where
david> something is around 4 IIRC). This fixed a bug in ramfs, since
david> previously the dirty bit was never being cleared.
david> At the time ramfs was the *only* place using PG_dirty - it looked like
david> it was just a misleading name for something analagous to BH_protected.
david> Obviously that's not true any more. What does the PG_dirty bit mean
david> these days?
It means that the page is Dirty??? :)))))
Seriosly, now we can have dirty swap cache pages and soon dirty page
cache pages, coming from mmaped files, not only pages from Ramfs have
that bit set.
Later, Juan.
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