Re: Is as_ops.c releasepage patch still needed?

[Alexander Zarochentsev <zam@namesys.com>]

Hi,

On 21 August 2006 22:49, Jonathan Briggs wrote:
> The following patch was posted to the Reiser4 list August 3 by zam. 
> Is it still needed?  It solved many problems for me, making my
> systems able to actually complete full Beagle indexing.

the patch submitted already and will be included into the next -mm 
kernel (after 2.6.18-rc4-mm3).

>
> But I have not seen this patch show up in the last two mm kernel
> releases.  Did something else fix it or is this patch still needed?
>
>
> Index: linux-2.6-git/fs/reiser4/as_ops.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6-git.orig/fs/reiser4/as_ops.c
> +++ linux-2.6-git/fs/reiser4/as_ops.c
> @@ -350,6 +350,11 @@ int reiser4_releasepage(struct page *pag
>         if (PageDirty(page))
>                 return 0;
>
> +       /* extra page reference is used by reiser4 to protect
> +        * jnode<->page link from this ->releasepage(). */
> +       if (page_count(page) > 3)
> +               return 0;
> +
>         /* releasable() needs jnode lock, because it looks at the
> jnode fields * and we need jload_lock here to avoid races with
> jload(). */ spin_lock_jnode(node);

-- 
Alex.