From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] VM: Fix the gfp_mask in invalidate_complete_page2
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 13:49:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5657.1160484596@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1160480576.5466.27.camel@lade.trondhjem.org>
Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> wrote:
> No. Invalidatepage does precisely the wrong thing: it invalidates dirty
> data instead of committing it to disk. If you need to have the data
> invalidated, then you should call truncate_inode_pages().
Hmmm... Good point, but you still need to handle try_to_release_page() failing,
but that only means checking the return value of invalidate_inode_pages2_range
(which you don't do, I notice). Or is it defined that if must succeed if
__GFP_WAIT is set?
With the two-phase thing, I think I'm thinking of the wrong portion of that
file (I'm thinking of truncate_inode_pages_range()).
Should invalidate_inode_pages2_range() take a gfp_t argument to pass on down?
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-10 12:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-06 21:37 [PATCH] VM: Fix the gfp_mask in invalidate_complete_page2 Trond Myklebust
2006-10-06 21:49 ` Steve Dickson
2006-10-06 22:16 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-10-06 22:19 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-10-06 22:40 ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-06 23:09 ` Steve Dickson
2006-10-06 23:20 ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-07 2:33 ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-10 9:43 ` David Howells
2006-10-10 11:42 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-10-10 12:18 ` Steve Dickson
2006-10-10 12:27 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-10-10 13:22 ` Steve Dickson
2006-10-10 13:32 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-10-10 12:49 ` David Howells [this message]
2006-10-10 13:15 ` Trond Myklebust
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