Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 9 Jul 2004 06:42:05 +0200 | | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | | Subject | Re: writepage fs corruption fixes |
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 ;) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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