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Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 15:51:24 -0200 (BRDT)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
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Subject: Re: innd mmap bug in 2.4.0-test12
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On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Chris Mason wrote:

> I think a dirty page without a writepage func seems a bit
> broken.  How about we give ramfs a writepage func that just
> returns 1.  That way nobody does any special if
> (ramfs_page(page)) kinds of tests...

This will lead to the ramfs pages staying on the inactive_dirty
list forever, deadlocking the system.

Rik
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