Messages in this thread | | | From | (Linus Torvalds) | Subject | Re: Q: generic_file_write sets PG_locked??? | Date | 22 Apr 1999 23:04:05 GMT |
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In article <14111.40097.154796.570022@dukat.scot.redhat.com>, Stephen C. Tweedie <sct@redhat.com> wrote: > >Yes and no. PageLocked may just indicate a background writeback in >progress. That definitely happens in the swap cache right now, but the >vfs code doesn't use it for the page cache (yet). It will do.
In fact, it already does for NFS, which uses PageLocked for exactly that reason (to serialize read and write requests to the same page).
> However, >if a given filesystem provides its own write-page strategy functions >which have their own locking semantics, there's no real reason to >prevent it from doing so as long as the page mapping functions continue >to block on a non-uptodate page.
For "valid to read", you only check Uptodate. For any actual IO (whether it's because you're going to actually _do_ the read or set up some write), PageLocked should be used to synchronize. NFS already does this, and generic_file_read() already understands about it.
Linus
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