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    DateMon, 19 Mar 2007 09:22:22 +0000
    FromChristoph Hellwig <>
    SubjectRe: [PATCH 1 of 2] block_page_mkwrite() Implementation V2
    On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 10:30:08AM +1100, David Chinner wrote:
    > 
    > Generic page_mkwrite functionality.
    > 
    > Filesystems that make use of the VM ->page_mkwrite() callout will generally use
    > the same core code to implement it. There are several tricky truncate-related
    > issues that we need to deal with here as we cannot take the i_mutex as we
    > normally would for these paths.  These issues are not documented anywhere yet
    > so block_page_mkwrite() seems like the best place to start.
    
    This will need some updates when ->fault replaces ->page_mkwrite.
    
    Nich, what's the plan for merging ->fault?
    
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