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SubjectRe: correction: fs/buffer.c underlocking async pages
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.

Andrea
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