Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 May 2011 14:17:11 -0400 | From | Ted Ts'o <> | Subject | Re: [5/7] ext4: Wait for writeback to complete while making pages writable |
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On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 01:03:56PM -0000, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > In order to stabilize pages during disk writes, ext4_page_mkwrite must wait for > writeback operations to complete before making a page writable. Furthermore, > the function must return locked pages, and recheck the writeback status if the > page lock is ever dropped. The "someone could wander in" part of this patch > was suggested by Chris Mason. > > Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com> > > --- > fs/ext4/inode.c | 24 +++++++++++++++++++----- > 1 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
Added to the ext4 tree, thanks.
- Ted
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