RE: [PATCH] NOMMU: Pages allocated to a ramfs inode's pagecache may get wrongly discarded

[Berkhan, Enrik (GE Infra, Oil & Gas)]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:30:35 +0000
> David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> From: Enrik Berkhan <Enrik.Berkhan@xxxxxx>
>> 
>> The solution is to mark the pages dirty at the point of allocation by
>> the truncation code.
> 
> Was there a specific reason for using the low-level SetPageDirty()?

No, no specific reason. It was just my first try of a fix after spotting 
the problem. After a short discussion with David, we decided to wait for 
others' comments on using the low-/high-level approach.

Enrik
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