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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: npiggin@suse.de, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/7] mm: write_cache_pages writepage error fix
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:05:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081021150520.1422086f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081021220103.GB26094@parisc-linux.org>

On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:01:03 -0600
Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 02:55:18PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > @@ -916,8 +915,8 @@ retry:
>                       ^^^^^^
> Hey, look everyone, our tools are completely shit.

yeah, that drive3s me nuts.

> >  			}
> >  
> >  			if (!wbc->range_cyclic && page->index > end) {
> > -				done = 1;
> >  				unlock_page(page);
> > +				goto bale;
> 
> I think you mean "bail".  Unless you mean making hay, or the 1913
> Webster definition:
>      1. Misery; calamity; misfortune; sorrow.
> which would be kind of appropriate, but I think you mean bail out.

Then "bail" means "making hey".

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-21 22:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-21  8:09 [patch 0/7] writeback data integrity and other fixes npiggin
2008-10-21  8:09 ` [patch 1/7] mm: write_cache_pages writepage error fix npiggin
2008-10-21 21:55   ` Andrew Morton
2008-10-21 22:01     ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-10-21 22:05       ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-10-22  9:36     ` Nick Piggin
2008-10-22 16:37       ` Andrew Morton
2008-10-28 13:18         ` Nick Piggin
2008-10-21  8:09 ` [patch 2/7] mm: write_cache_pages integrity fix npiggin
2008-10-21  8:09 ` [patch 3/7] mm: do_sync_mapping_range " npiggin
2008-10-21  8:09 ` [patch 4/7] mm: write_cache_pages cyclic fix npiggin
2008-10-21  8:09 ` [patch 5/7] mm: write_cache_pages cleanups npiggin
2008-10-21  8:09 ` [patch 6/7] mm: write_cache_pages optimise page cleaning npiggin
2008-10-21  8:09 ` [patch 7/7] mm: write_cache_pages terminate quickly npiggin

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