Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Jun 2001 19:15:22 +0200 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: correction: fs/buffer.c underlocking async pages |
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On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 09:56:04AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: What's the problem with the existing code, and why do people want to add a > (unnecessary) new bit?
there's no problem with the existing code, what I understood is that they cannot overwrite the ->b_end_io callback in the lowlevel blkdev layer or the page will be unlocked too early.
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