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From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org, mason@suse.com
Subject: Re: writepage fs corruption fixes
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 06:42:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040709044205.GF20947@dualathlon.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040708212923.406135f0.akpm@osdl.org>

Hi Andrew,

On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 09:29:23PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> ooh, nasty, yes.  You must be testing the crap out if it.

;) thanks for the immediate review!

BTW, the new mpage code looks great, it's a pity that reiserfs and ext3
don't use it yet.

> PG_writeback protects the page from truncate, from invalidate and from page
> reclaim.  pagevec_strip() won't touch the buffers due to the
> PageWriteback() test in try_to_release_page().  So I think we're OK in
> there.  I can add a couple more coment fixes for this.

Indeed, sorry. I should have watched more carefully for the writeback
bitflag but I was still in "anything that looks a bug close it and try
again" mode when I made the two "noop" changes ;)

  reply	other threads:[~2004-07-09  4:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-09  4:01 Andrea Arcangeli
2004-07-09  4:06 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-07-09  4:19   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-07-09  4:29 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-09  4:42   ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2004-07-09  4:56     ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-09 12:43       ` Chris Mason
2004-07-10  0:16       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-07-10  1:07         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-07-10  4:30           ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-10  4:59           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-07-10  5:56             ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-10  6:11               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-07-10  6:13                 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-14 16:14                 ` Andrea Arcangeli

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