Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Mar 2005 16:45:53 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.6.11-mm1 "nobh" support for ext3 writeback mode |
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Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> wrote: > > > What's all this doing? (It needs comments please - it's very unobvious). > > All its trying to do is - to make sure the page is uptodate so that > it can zero out the portion thats needed.
OK.
> I can do getblock() and ll_rw_block(READ) instead. I was > trying to re-use the code and mpage_readpage() drops the lock. > What do you think ?
Can you just call ->prepare_write, as nobh_truncate_page() does? That'll cause a nested transaction, but that's legal. - 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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