Re: [PATCH] nfs: fix nfs_writepage()

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Wed Oct 17 2007 - 12:06:56 EST


On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 06:02:45PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > Apparently Peter has some broken patches in his tree that cause this.
> > It can for sure not happen in mainline and that's absolutely intentional.
>
> Yeah, I got fooled by thinking swapper_space was 'proper' usage.

The swapper space is and always has been special because it's not owned
by a filesystem but rather the VM, so it can be sloppy about some things.

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