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From: Theodore Tso <tytso@MIT.EDU>
To: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] ext4: Use page_mkwrite vma_operations to get mmap write notification.
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 18:29:27 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080305232927.GC18188@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1204677951.3605.6.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 04:45:51PM -0800, Mingming Cao wrote:
> > +	/* FIXME!! should we take inode->i_mutex ? Currently we can't because
> > +	 * it has a circular locking dependency with DIO. But migrate expect
> > +	 * i_mutex to ensure no i_data changes

Should I worry that we have something in the stable part of the patch
queue with this FIXME!! comment?  :-)

						- Ted

  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-05 23:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-04 12:42 [RFC PATCH] ext4: Use page_mkwrite vma_operations to get mmap write notification Aneesh Kumar K.V
2008-03-05  0:45 ` Mingming Cao
2008-03-05 23:29   ` Theodore Tso [this message]
2008-03-05 23:37     ` Mingming Cao
2008-03-05 23:59       ` Theodore Tso
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-02-28 18:05 [RFC][PATCH] " Aneesh Kumar K.V

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