> All those games with PG_fs_misc look awfully similar to lock_page() - I'd
> have thought there's some room for rationalising code in there.
Yeah, it's very much like a secondary restricted page lock. Instead of
sleeping when you can't get the page lock, you can also try acquiring this sort
of secondary page lock bit which lets you do *very* specific things. Maybe
it's not *that* weird, I just didn't think that the core would be interested in
supporting that notion. I can try rolling a patch to see what a more sensible
API would look like.
> The overall approach would be to avoid adding overhead and complexity for
> other filesystems and to only export symbols which constitute a sensible
> API:
*nod*
- z
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
[Index of Archives]
[Kernel Newbies]
[Netfilter]
[Bugtraq]
[Photo]
[Stuff]
[Gimp]
[Yosemite News]
[MIPS Linux]
[ARM Linux]
[Linux Security]
[Linux RAID]
[Video 4 Linux]
[Linux for the blind]
[Linux Resources]
