Re: [PATCH 1/3] replace PAGECACHE_TAG_* definition with enumeration

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On 06/02/2014 10:14 AM, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
> Yes, that's necessary to consider (but I haven't done, sorry),
> so I'm thinking of moving this definition to the new file
> include/uapi/linux/pagecache.h and let it be imported from the
> userspace programs. Is it fine?

Yep, although I'd probably also explicitly separate the definitions of
the user-exposed ones from the kernel-internal ones.  We want to make
this hard to screw up.

I can see why we might want to expose dirty and writeback out to
userspace, especially since we already expose the aggregate, system-wide
view in /proc/meminfo.  But, what about PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE?  I really
can't think of a good reason why userspace would ever care about it or
consider it different from PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY.

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