Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Jun 2001 11:49:20 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: correction: fs/buffer.c underlocking async pages |
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On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> 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.
Oh, fair enough.
I don't have any objections to the patch in that case, although it does end up being a 2.5.x issue as far as I'm concerned (and don't worry, 2.5.x looks like it will open in a week or two, so we're not talking about long timeframes).
Obviously 2.5.x code may be back-ported to 2.4.x later. That will be up to Alan.
Linus
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