On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 02:00:36PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 23:10:21 +0200 > Miklos Szeredi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This patch makes writing to shared memory mappings update st_ctime and > > st_mtime as defined by SUSv3: > > Boy this is complicated. > > Is there a simpler way of doing all this? Say, we define a new page flag > PG_dirtiedbywrite and we do SetPageDirtiedByWrite() inside write() and > ClearPageDirtiedByWrite() whenever we propagate pte-dirtiness into > page-dirtiness. Then, when performing writeback we look to see if any of > the dirty pages are !PageDirtiedByWrite() and, if so, we update [mc]time to > current-time. > > Or something like that - I'm just thinking out loud and picking holes in > the above doesn't shut me up ;) We're adding complexity and some overhead > and we're losing our recent msync() simplifications and this all hurts. Is > there some other way? I think burning a page flag to avoid this additional > complexity would be worthwhile.
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