Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 14 Jan 2001, Christoph Rohland wrote:
> Why do you increment the use counter at all in nopage?
First to be able to limit the overall number of pages used by the
filesystem and second to have the right value for the number of blocks
in [f]stat.
Sho
On 14 Jan 2001, Christoph Rohland wrote:
>
> Since we do not mark the page dirty at allocation time the vm can drop
> it at any time as long as it is not written to. But shmem never
> adjusts its accounting to that and will happily increase the use
> counter for both the inode and the fs.
Why
Hi Linus,
While playing with the shmem read/write support I realised that the
accounting for shmem is broken:
Since we do not mark the page dirty at allocation time the vm can drop
it at any time as long as it is not written to. But shmem never
adjusts its accounting to that and will happily inc
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