[PATCH v4 02/28] mm: Add an unlock function for PG_private_2/PG_fscache
David Howells
dhowells at redhat.com
Tue Mar 16 20:38:00 GMT 2021
Matthew Wilcox <willy at infradead.org> wrote:
> So ... a page with both flags cleared should have a refcount of N.
> A page with one or both flags set should have a refcount of N+1.
> ...
> How is a poor filesystem supposed to make that true? Also btrfs has this
> problem since it uses private_2 for its own purposes.
It's simpler if it's N+2 for both patches set. Btw, patch 13 adds that - and
possibly that should be merged into an earlier patch.
David
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