Re: innd mmap bug in 2.4.0-test12

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Thu Dec 28 2000 - 12:51:24 EST

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On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Chris Mason wrote:

> I think a dirty page without a writepage func seems a bit
> broken. How about we give ramfs a writepage func that just
> returns 1. That way nobody does any special if
> (ramfs_page(page)) kinds of tests...

This will lead to the ramfs pages staying on the inactive_dirty
list forever, deadlocking the system.

Rik

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