Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Yet another borken page_count() check in invalidate_inode_pages2().... | From | Trond Myklebust <> | Date | Wed, 15 Nov 2006 13:05:13 -0500 |
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On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 08:46 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> but nobody could have started another writeback after the "..." because they > couldn't have got the lock_page(), and lock_page() is required for > ->writepage()?
Nothing can have called writepage(), but something may be calling ->writepages(). That may call set_page_writeback without taking the page lock.
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