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From: Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>
To: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>,
	Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] filemap_fdatasync & related changes
Date: 04 Jan 2001 18:01:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3snmzjlp6.fsf@linux.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <774720000.978622231@tiny>
In-Reply-To: <774720000.978622231@tiny>

Chris Mason <mason@suse.com> writes:

> Yes, right now the shmem writepage calls are the only ones returning one at
> all.  But, the question of how to properly fsync/msync these kinds of pages
> still stands.  Returning from an fsync before writing them isn't correct.

Yes, and [fm]sync should not do anything on shmem pages. There is
nothing to sync. So everything is fine.

        Christoph

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  reply	other threads:[~2001-01-04 16:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-12-28 20:25 test13-pre5 Linus Torvalds
2000-12-28 18:39 ` test13-pre5 Marcelo Tosatti
2000-12-28 20:59   ` test13-pre5 Linus Torvalds
2000-12-28 19:22     ` test13-pre5 Marcelo Tosatti
2000-12-28 21:21       ` [wildly off-topic] test13-pre5 Rik van Riel
2000-12-28 19:31         ` Marcelo Tosatti
2000-12-28 21:39     ` test13-pre5 Daniel Phillips
2000-12-28 22:14     ` test13-pre5 Marcelo Tosatti
2000-12-29  1:10       ` test13-pre5 Linus Torvalds
2000-12-29 12:06       ` test13-pre5 Daniel Phillips
2000-12-28 22:17     ` test13-pre5 Andi Kleen
2000-12-28 22:33       ` test13-pre5 David S. Miller
2000-12-28 22:58         ` test13-pre5 Andi Kleen
2000-12-28 22:54           ` test13-pre5 David S. Miller
2000-12-28 23:17             ` test13-pre5 Andi Kleen
2000-12-28 23:14               ` test13-pre5 David S. Miller
2000-12-28 23:39                 ` test13-pre5 Andi Kleen
2000-12-28 23:25               ` test13-pre5 Rik van Riel
2000-12-28 23:36               ` test13-pre5 Linus Torvalds
2000-12-28 23:03           ` test13-pre5 Rik van Riel
2000-12-29 15:46         ` test13-pre5 Mark Hemment
2000-12-29 16:30           ` test13-pre5 Tim Wright
2000-12-29 17:54             ` test13-pre5 Mark Hemment
2000-12-29 21:23           ` test13-pre5 David S. Miller
2000-12-29 21:51             ` test13-pre5 Linus Torvalds
2000-12-28 23:15       ` test13-pre5 Linus Torvalds
2000-12-28 23:25         ` test13-pre5 Andi Kleen
2000-12-28 23:37           ` test13-pre5 Linus Torvalds
2000-12-28 23:43             ` test13-pre5 Andi Kleen
2000-12-29  0:49             ` test13-pre5 Stefan Traby
2000-12-29  1:23               ` test13-pre5 Linus Torvalds
2000-12-29  1:06                 ` test13-pre5 Albert Cranford
2000-12-29 14:53                   ` test13-pre5 Stefan Traby
2000-12-30 13:24         ` test13-pre5 Geert Uytterhoeven
2000-12-31 17:21           ` test13-pre5 Andi Kleen
2000-12-31 17:27             ` test13-pre5 Linus Torvalds
2000-12-31 17:36               ` test13-pre5 Andi Kleen
2000-12-31 18:19                 ` test13-pre5 Andrea Arcangeli
2000-12-31 18:06               ` test13-pre5 Andi Kleen
2000-12-31 18:07               ` test13-pre5 Matti Aarnio
2000-12-31 19:15                 ` test13-pre5 Linus Torvalds
2000-12-31 19:49                   ` test13-pre5 Andi Kleen
2000-12-31 18:10               ` test13-pre5 Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-01 19:58           ` test13-pre5 H. Peter Anvin
2000-12-29 16:49     ` [PATCH] filemap_fdatasync & related changes Marcelo Tosatti
2000-12-29 21:13       ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-03 16:37       ` Chris Mason
2001-01-03 17:07         ` Daniel Phillips
2001-01-03 18:28         ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-03 19:09           ` Chris Mason
2001-01-03 21:39             ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-01-04 18:46           ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-01-04  9:48         ` Christoph Rohland
2001-01-04 14:41           ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-01-04 16:58             ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-04 17:38               ` Chris Mason
2001-01-04 18:00                 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-04 22:52                   ` Daniel Phillips
2001-01-04 15:30           ` Chris Mason
2001-01-04 17:01             ` Christoph Rohland [this message]
2000-12-28 21:27 ` test13-pre5 (via82cxxx_audio.c) Jonathan Hudson
2000-12-29 18:17 ` test13-pre5 Tom Rini

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