Re: [PATCH] Remove softlockup from invalidate_mapping_pages.

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On Thu, Apr 20 2006, Neil Brown wrote:
> On Thursday April 20, [email protected] wrote:
> > > Cc: "Steinar H. Gunderson" <[email protected]>
> > > Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <[email protected]>
> > > 
> > > ### Diffstat output
> > >  ./mm/truncate.c |   10 ++++------
> > >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > diff ./mm/truncate.c~current~ ./mm/truncate.c
> > > --- ./mm/truncate.c~current~	2006-04-20 15:27:22.000000000 +1000
> > > +++ ./mm/truncate.c	2006-04-20 15:38:20.000000000 +1000
> > > @@ -238,13 +238,11 @@ unsigned long invalidate_mapping_pages(s
> > >  		for (i = 0; i < pagevec_count(&pvec); i++) {
> > >  			struct page *page = pvec.pages[i];
> > >  
> > > -			if (TestSetPageLocked(page)) {
> > > -				next++;
> > > +			next = page->index+1;
> > > +
> > > +			if (TestSetPageLocked(page))
> > >  				continue;
> > > -			}
> > > -			if (page->index > next)
> > > -				next = page->index;
> > > -			next++;
> > > +
> > >  			if (PageDirty(page) || PageWriteback(page))
> > >  				goto unlock;
> > >  			if (page_mapped(page))
> > 
> > We're not supposed to look at page->index of an unlocked page.
> 
> We're not?  Does Jens know that?
> __generic_file_splice_read seems to violate this principle!

Hmmm, where?


-- 
Jens Axboe

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