On 1/16/20 1:37 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 01:19:41PM -0800, John Hubbard wrote:
On 1/15/20 7:23 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
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I'm really not sold on this scheme. Note that I think it is
particularly bad, but it also doesn't seem any better than what
we had before
On 1/15/20 7:23 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
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>
> I'm really not sold on this scheme. Note that I think it is
> particularly bad, but it also doesn't seem any better than what
> we had before, and it introduced quite a bit more code.
>
Hi Christoph,
All by itself, yes. But the very next pat
An upcoming patch changes and complicates the refcounting and
especially the "put page" aspects of it. In order to keep
everything clean, refactor the devmap page release routines:
* Rename put_devmap_managed_page() to page_is_devmap_managed(),
and limit the functionality to "read only": return
