Andrew Morton <[email protected]> wrote: > But we already covered that? Your exciser can do an unconditional > end_page_writeback(), because it is this thread of control which did the > set_page_writeback(). So we end up with: Ah, I misunderstood what you meant. I assumed you meant to wait insted of ending. Of course, if we've decided to excise this page, it really oughtn't to get PG_writeback set again. I'll have to think about that. > Well someone needs to be taught all about this case. Question is, should > it be the VFS, or should it just be the address_space(s) which brought > this state about, and which care about it? For the most part, I think that this only applies to netfs's, and possibly not all of those, so making it fully general might be overkill. David - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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