Re: Please help me understand ->writepage. Was Re: segfault mdadm --write-behind, 2.6.14-mm2 (was: Re: RAID1 ramdisk patch)

On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 10:07:41AM +1100, Neil Brown wrote:
> To write the pages out it effectively does ->prepare_write,
> ->commit_write, and then ->writepage.
> I'm not sure that prepare/commit is needed, but they don't seem to be
> the problem.  writepage is.

That's a bit weird.  Typically you have two separate callpaths,
non-page-aligned (prepare_write + commit_write) or writepage(s).
Not both.

	Jeff



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