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Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 20:29:24 -0700 (PDT)
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: page_launder() bug
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Marcelo Tosatti writes:
 > > Hmmm, can't this happen without my patch?
 > 
 > No. We will never call writepage() without __GFP_IO without your patch.
 > 

I see, because launder_loop never progresses to 1 in that case.

My patch is crap and can cause corruptions, there is not argument
about it now :-)

Later,
David S. Miller
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