Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch 1/2] mm: dont clear PG_uptodate in invalidate_complete_page2() | From | Miklos Szeredi <> | Date | Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:21:34 +0200 |
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On Mon, 7 Jul 2008, Nick Piggin wrote: > I don't know what became of this thread, but I agree with everyone else > you should not skip clearing PG_uptodate here. If nothing else, it > weakens some important assertions in the VM. But I agree that splice > should really try harder to work with it and we should be a little > careful about just changing things like this.
Sure, that's why I rfc'ed.
But I'd still like to know, what *are* those assumptions in the VM that would be weakened by this?
Thanks, Miklos
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