Re: [patch 3/3] fs: fix cont vs deadlock patches

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On Fri, 1 Dec 2006 06:08:52 +0100
Nick Piggin <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 12:41:25PM +0900, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
> > 
> > Yes, this patch doesn't pass zero-length to prepare_write. However,
> > I'm not checking this patch is ok for reiserfs...
> 
> OK, vfat wasn't working correctly for me -- I needed the following patch:

Now I'm confused.  What relationship does this patch have to the below?

revert-generic_file_buffered_write-handle-zero-length-iovec-segments.patch
revert-generic_file_buffered_write-deadlock-on-vectored-write.patch
generic_file_buffered_write-cleanup.patch
mm-only-mm-debug-write-deadlocks.patch
mm-fix-pagecache-write-deadlocks.patch
mm-fix-pagecache-write-deadlocks-comment.patch
mm-fix-pagecache-write-deadlocks-xip.patch
mm-fix-pagecache-write-deadlocks-mm-pagecache-write-deadlocks-efault-fix.patch
mm-fix-pagecache-write-deadlocks-zerolength-fix.patch
mm-fix-pagecache-write-deadlocks-stale-holes-fix.patch
fs-prepare_write-fixes.patch
fs-prepare_write-fixes-fuse-fix.patch
fs-prepare_write-fixes-jffs-fix.patch
fs-prepare_write-fixes-fat-fix.patch
fs-fix-cont-vs-deadlock-patches.patch


> Index: linux-2.6/fs/buffer.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/buffer.c	2006-12-01 15:31:22.000000000 +1100
> +++ linux-2.6/fs/buffer.c	2006-12-01 16:02:23.000000000 +1100
> @@ -2102,6 +2102,7 @@

Please always use `diff -p'

>  			*bytes |= (blocksize-1);
>  			(*bytes)++;
>  		}
> +
>  		status = __block_prepare_write(inode, new_page, zerofrom,
>  						PAGE_CACHE_SIZE, get_block);
>  		if (status)
> @@ -2110,7 +2111,7 @@
>  		memset(kaddr+zerofrom, 0, PAGE_CACHE_SIZE-zerofrom);
>  		flush_dcache_page(new_page);
>  		kunmap_atomic(kaddr, KM_USER0);
> -		generic_commit_write(NULL, new_page, zerofrom, PAGE_CACHE_SIZE);
> +		__block_commit_write(inode, new_page, zerofrom, PAGE_CACHE_SIZE);

Whatever function this is doesn't need to update i_size?


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