Re: question about do_anonymous_page()

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From: Hugh Dickins
Date: Friday, August 8, 2008 - 1:51 am

On Fri, 8 Aug 2008, Francis Moreau wrote:

Yes.

It just happens that whoever (Rik?) originally named that function was
primarily thinking of the page cache at the time; or perhaps wasn't
thinking of the file page cache at all, just regarding all the pages
we put on that list as cached in some sense.

You're right that it's a little anomalous, but nothing to worry about.
I get more bothered by page_cache_get(), which is and always(?) has
been the same thing as get_page(): sometimes we use one, sometimes
the other, and often we use page_cache_get() on anonymous pages.

Hugh
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question about do_anonymous_page(), Francis Moreau, (Fri Aug 8, 1:01 am)
Re: question about do_anonymous_page(), Francis Moreau, (Fri Aug 8, 1:23 am)
Re: question about do_anonymous_page(), Hugh Dickins, (Fri Aug 8, 1:51 am)
Re: question about do_anonymous_page(), Francis Moreau, (Fri Aug 8, 2:22 am)