Re: [PATCH] mm: add replace_page_cache_page() function

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On 12/15/2010 10:49 AM, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
From: Miklos Szeredi<mszeredi@xxxxxxx>

This function basically does:

      remove_from_page_cache(old);
      page_cache_release(old);
      add_to_page_cache_locked(new);

Except it does this atomically, so there's no possibility for the
"add" to fail because of a race.

This is used by fuse to move pages into the page cache.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi<mszeredi@xxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>

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