Re: [RFC][PATCH] Rename PageChecked as PageMiscFS

From: Adrian Bunk
Date: Wed Aug 10 2005 - 18:43:17 EST


On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 08:23:53AM +1000, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> Note: I have not fully audited the NFS-related colliding use of page flags bit
> 8, to verify that it really does not escape into VFS or MM from NFS, in fact
> I have misgivings about end_page_fs_misc which uses this flag but has no
> in-tree users to show how it is used and, hmm, isn't even _GPL. What is up?
>
> And note the wrongness tacked onto the end of page-flags.h. I didn't do it!

This is provide-a-filesystem-specific-syncable-page-bit.patch, and it's
only in -mm.

Since this was done only for CacheFS, and Andrew dropped CacheFS from
-mm he could drop this patch as well.

> Regards,
>
> Daniel

cu
Adrian

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