From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965223AbWL2WZV (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Dec 2006 17:25:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755070AbWL2WZV (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Dec 2006 17:25:21 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.25]:59599 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752978AbWL2WZU (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Dec 2006 17:25:20 -0500 Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 14:24:35 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Linus Torvalds , Segher Boessenkool , David Miller , nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, kenneth.w.chen@intel.com, guichaz@yahoo.fr, hugh@veritas.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List , ranma@tdiedrich.de, gordonfarquharson@gmail.com, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, tbm@cyrius.com, arjan@infradead.org, andrei.popa@i-neo.ro Subject: Re: Ok, explained.. (was Re: [PATCH] mm: fix page_mkclean_one) Message-Id: <20061229142435.d78a1293.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20061229141632.51c8c080.akpm@osdl.org> References: <20061228114517.3315aee7.akpm@osdl.org> <20061228.143815.41633302.davem@davemloft.net> <3d6d8711f7b892a11801d43c5996ebdf@kernel.crashing.org> <20061229141632.51c8c080.akpm@osdl.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.6; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 29 Dec 2006 14:16:32 -0800 Andrew Morton wrote: > - Poor old IO accounting broke again. No it didn't - we're relying upon the behaviour of __set_page_dirty_buffers() against an already-dirty page.