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r: 9152
b: refs/heads/master
c: 7e871b6
h: refs/heads/master
v: v3

[refs]

@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: f875a1a6650edce859bd21051a22e1c27ac7ea63
+refs/heads/master: 7e871b6c8f1f4fda41e51ef86147facecac3be9f

trunk/include/linux/mm.h

@@ -350,7 +350,8 @@ static inline void put_page(struct page *page)
  * only one copy in memory, at most, normally.
  *
  * For the non-reserved pages, page_count(page) denotes a reference count.
- *   page_count() == 0 means the page is free.
+ *   page_count() == 0 means the page is free. page->lru is then used for
+ *   freelist management in the buddy allocator.
  *   page_count() == 1 means the page is used for exactly one purpose
  *   (e.g. a private data page of one process).
  *
@@ -376,10 +377,8 @@ static inline void put_page(struct page *page)
  * attaches, plus 1 if `private' contains something, plus one for
  * the page cache itself.
  *
- * All pages belonging to an inode are in these doubly linked lists:
- * mapping->clean_pages, mapping->dirty_pages and mapping->locked_pages;
- * using the page->list list_head. These fields are also used for
- * freelist managemet (when page_count()==0).
+ * Instead of keeping dirty/clean pages in per address-space lists, we instead
+ * now tag pages as dirty/under writeback in the radix tree.
  *
  * There is also a per-mapping radix tree mapping index to the page
  * in memory if present. The tree is rooted at mapping->root.