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Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 10:45:40 -0300 (BRT)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Andrew Morton wrote:

> 1: page_cache_size is no longer an atomic type - it's now just an
>    unsigned long.  It's always altered under pagecache_lock.

Is this change worth it ?   This code will have to be changed
back in any patch trying to fine-grain the pagecache lock...

Alternatively, maybe we should hide the page_cache_size behind
magic macros too, so it's easier to change the underlying data
structure(s).

regards,

Rik
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