From: "Aneesh Kumar K. V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: v9fs-developer@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] fs/9p: call vmtruncate before setattr 9p opeation
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 19:14:16 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pqqbdkgf.fsf@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110301121012.GA15516@infradead.org>
On Tue, 1 Mar 2011 07:10:12 -0500, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 02:21:20PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> > We need to call vmtruncate before 9p setattr operation, otherwise we
> > could write back some dirty pages between setattr with ATTR_SIZE and vmtruncate
> > causing some truncated pages to be written back to server
>
> Please read the documentation. vmtruncate is deprecated and no new
> users may be added at this point.
>
I actually didn't add a new user for vmtruncate. But i did missed the
fact that vmtruncate is deprecated. I will do a new patch to switch to
truncate_setsize.
-aneesh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-01 13:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-01 8:51 [PATCH 1/6] fs/9p: Properly update inode attributes on link Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-03-01 8:51 ` [PATCH 2/6] fs/9p: call vmtruncate before setattr 9p opeation Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-03-01 12:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-03-01 13:44 ` Aneesh Kumar K. V [this message]
2011-03-01 15:07 ` Aneesh Kumar K. V
2011-03-01 8:51 ` [PATCH 3/6] fs/9p: Writeback dirty data before setattr Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-03-01 8:51 ` [PATCH 4/6] fs/9p: Make the writeback_fid owned by root Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-03-01 8:51 ` [PATCH 5/6] net/9p: Convert the in the 9p rpc call path to GFP_NOFS Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-03-01 8:51 ` [PATCH 6/6] net/9p: Fix compile warning Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-03-19 20:12 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2011-03-19 20:12 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
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