Re: [PATCH 2/2] updating ctime and mtime at syncing

[Miklos Szeredi]

> More fun, it would require marking them RO but leaving the dirty bit
> set, because this ext3 fudge where we confuse the page dirty state - or
> did that get fixed?

That got fixed by Nick, I think.

The alternative to marking pages RO, is to walk the PTEs in MS_ASYNC,
note the dirty bit and mark pages clean.  But it's possibly even more
complicated.

Miklos
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