Re: remove mixture of non-atomic operations with page->flags which requires atomic operations to access
William Lee Irwin III (wli@holomorphy.com)
Mon, 3 Jun 2002 04:07:42 -0700
>    From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
>    Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 04:00:55 -0700
> 
>     	if (PageWriteback(page))
>     		BUG();
>    -	ClearPageDirty(page);
>    -	page->flags &= ~(1<<PG_referenced);
>    +
>    +	page->flags &= ~((1UL << PG_referenced) | (1UL << PG_dirty));
> 
> Umm, nevermind.  Look at ClearPageDirty, it does
> "other stuff" so you can't remove it wholesale.
> In the end, the code is as it should be right now.
Ugh, even if it isn't I don't care to deal with it, rusty, chuck this one.
Cheers,
Bill
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