> > > > See the file "Locking" for more details. > > > > > > The "should set PG_Writeback" bit threw me off I guess. > > Hmm, set_page_writeback() is also the one clearing the radix tree dirty > tag. So if that is not called, we get in a bit of a mess, no? > > Which makes me think hostfs is buggy. Yes, looks like that sort of usage is not valid. But not clearing the dirty tag won't cause any malfunction, it'll just waste some CPU when looking for dirty pages to write back. This is probably why this wasn't noticed earlier. Miklos - 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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