On 09/20/2011 09:45 AM, Johannes Weiner wrote:

Tell the page allocator that pages allocated through
grab_cache_page_write_begin() are expected to become dirty soon.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner<redacted>

Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel<redacted>

The missing codepaths pointed out by Christoph either
create new anonymous pages, or mark ptes pointing at
existing page cache pages writeable.

Either way, those should not need __GFP_WRITE.

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