On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 11:44:55PM +0100, Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 03:31 +0100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > SetNewPageUptodate does not do the S390 page_test_and_clear_dirty, so
> > I'd like to make sure that's OK.
>
> An I/O operation on s390 will set the dirty bit for a page. That is the
Oh, OK.
> reason to have SetPageUptodate clear the per page dirty bit when the
> page is made uptodate the first time. Otherwise we end up writing each
> page back to its backing device at least once. If SetNewPageUptodate is
> used on new anonymous pages exclusively I don't see a problem in
> omitting the page_test_clear_dirty.
Thanks for the confirmation.
I'll obviously have to resend a new patchset because I made a silly
paper-bag bug with this one. May I say that the s390 specific part of
the change is acked-by: you?
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