Berkhan, Enrik (GE Infra, Oil & Gas) wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:30:35 +0000 > > David Howells <[email protected]> wrote: > >> From: Enrik Berkhan <[email protected]> > >> > >> The solution is to mark the pages dirty at the point of allocation by > >> the truncation code. > > > > Was there a specific reason for using the low-level SetPageDirty()? > > No, no specific reason. It was just my first try of a fix after spotting > the problem. After a short discussion with David, we decided to wait for > others' comments on using the low-/high-level approach.
Tangentially related... Does the vm pageout logic include or skip these "dirty" pages looking for candidates to flush to storage? What about with MMU? -- Jamie _______________________________________________ uClinux-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.uclinux.org/mailman/listinfo/uclinux-dev This message was resent by [email protected] To unsubscribe see: http://mailman.uclinux.org/mailman/options/uclinux-dev
