On Sunday, January 14, 2001 10:56:10 AM -0800 Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@transmeta.com> wrote:
>> Marcelo Tosatti writes:
>> >
>> > While taking a look at page_launder()...
>>
>> ...
>>
>> > set_page_dirty() may lock the pagecache_lock which means potential
>> > deadlock since we have the pagemap_lru_lock locked.
>>
>
> Well, as the new shm code doesn't return 1 any more, the whole locked page
> handling should just be deleted. ramfs always just re-marked the page
> dirty in its own "writepage()" function, so it was only shmfs that ever
> returned this special case, and because of other issues it already got
> excised by Christoph..
>
Then I'm confused by the code in 2.4.1pre8:
-chris
/*
* Move the page from the page cache to the swap cache
*/
static int shmem_writepage(struct page * page)
{
int error;
struct shmem_inode_info *info;
swp_entry_t *entry, swap;
info = &page->mapping->host->u.shmem_i;
if (info->locked)
return 1;
swap = __get_swap_page(2);
if (!swap.val)
return 1;
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