Re: [patch] cache flush bug in mm/filemap.c (all kernels >=2.5.30(at least))

From: David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Date: Thu May 29 2003 - 16:17:52 EST


From: Roman Zippel <zippel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 19:49:15 +0200 (CEST)

cachetlb.txt also says "_OR_ the kernel is about to read from a page cache
page..." and it's used like this in mm/filemap.c.

That's correct.

I think it would be better to move this into a separate function,

How about just a flag, saying which event is occuring/about-to-occur?

Franks a lot,
David S. Miller
davem@xxxxxxxxxx
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