Re: oops if free a locked page

Ingo Molnar (mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu)
Wed, 23 Jun 1999 00:32:40 +0200 (CEST)


On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> Right now I am using a put_page_refcount to decrease the page count
> without calling free_pages by hand when I know I have some additional
> refcount that can't trigger the page to be released for real, this way for
> example I issue a put_page_refcount(2, page) in truncate_inode_pages
> instead of a __free_page in try_to_free_buffers and two __free_pages in
> truncate_inode_pages. [...]

yes thats a useful optimization indeed - was in my queue :). Although
put_page(page,2) in truncate_inode_pages() is a bug if you look harder,
the last put_page() is the 'final' one as well.

-- mingo

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