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From: Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: padraig@antefacto.com (Padraig Brady), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: question about kernel 2.4 ramdisk
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Date: 05 Dec 2001 08:49:37 +0100
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Hi Alan,

On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
>> wrt the ramfs leak (the referenced patch below worked for me),
>> is the ramfs usage limits patch + this fix going into
>> the official 2.4 soon as it was in the ac series for ages?
> 
> The -ac ramfs changes need the mm operations changes. Someone has to
> go merge that with Andrea-vm then you can get ramfs fixed and
> accounting sorted out in shmfs

To be pendantic here: Accounting is right in tmpfs (^=shmfs).

What's missing is the global statistic of how many in memory pages in
the page cache are actually tmpfs pages.

Greetings
		Christoph


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