On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
>
> The thing is, the "exclusively owned" situation cannot
> be checked in any way, except maybe through the fact
> that page->mapping==NULL ...
Well, you also have to check that the page isn't on the LRU list, so it
would have to be something like
!page->mapping && !PageLRU(page)
which I agree is ugly. It's much better to just move the page->flag
setting into the callers (and most of the callers _can_ trivially check
that they are exclusive owners, because most of them will just have
allocated the page ;)
Linus
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