Re: [RFC 0/5] Change page reference hanlding semantic of page cache

[Minchan Kim]

On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Dec 2010, Minchan Kim wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > You'll need to merge all patches into one, otherwise you create really
>> > nasty memory leaks when bisecting between them.
>> >
>>
>> Okay. I will resend.
>>
>> Thanks for the notice, Christoph.
>
> Good point from hch, but I feel even more strongly: if you're going to
> do this now, please rename remove_from_page_cache (delete_from_page_cache
> was what I chose back when I misdid it) - you're changing an EXPORTed
> function in a subtle (well, subtlish) confusing way, which could easily
> waste people's time down the line, whether in not-yet-in-tree filesystems
> or backports of fixes.  I'd much rather you break someone's build,
> forcing them to look at what changed, than crash or leak at runtime.
>
> If you do rename, you can keep your patch structure, introducing the
> new function as a wrapper to the old at the beginning, then removing
> the old function at the end.

It is very good idea!!
Thanks for good suggestion, Hugh.

>
> (As you know, I do agree that it's right to decrement the reference
> count at the point of removing from page cache.)
>
> Hugh
>



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Kind regards,
Minchan Kim
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