Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755675AbZCML45 (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Mar 2009 07:56:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752759AbZCML4s (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Mar 2009 07:56:48 -0400 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:33337 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752591AbZCML4r (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Mar 2009 07:56:47 -0400 Organization: Red Hat UK Ltd. Registered Address: Red Hat UK Ltd, Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SI4 1TE, United Kingdom. Registered in England and Wales under Company Registration No. 3798903 From: David Howells In-Reply-To: <20090312100049.43A3.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> References: <20090312100049.43A3.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> <20090311170207.1795cad9.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <28c262360903111735s2b0c43a3pd48fcf8d55416ae3@mail.gmail.com> To: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Minchan Kim , Andrew Morton , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, peterz@infradead.org, Enrik.Berkhan@ge.com, uclinux-dev@uclinux.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Johannes Weiner , Rik van Riel , Lee Schermerhorn Subject: Re: [PATCH] NOMMU: Pages allocated to a ramfs inode's pagecache may get wrongly discarded Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:53:02 +0000 Message-ID: <27074.1236945182@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 550 Lines: 14 KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: > David, Could you please try following patch if you have NOMMU machine? > it is straightforward porting to nommu. Is this patch actually sufficient, though? Surely it requires an alteration to ramfs to mark the page as being unevictable? David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/