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From: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
To: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 004 of 4] Make address_space_operations->invalidatepage return void
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 10:32:11 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1142267531.9971.5.camel@kleikamp.austin.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1060312235331.15985@suse.de>

On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 10:53 +1100, NeilBrown wrote:
> diff ./fs/jfs/jfs_metapage.c~current~ ./fs/jfs/jfs_metapage.c
> --- ./fs/jfs/jfs_metapage.c~current~    2006-03-09 17:29:35.000000000
> +1100
> +++ ./fs/jfs/jfs_metapage.c     2006-03-13 10:46:55.000000000 +1100
> @@ -578,14 +578,13 @@ static int metapage_releasepage(struct p
>         return 0;
>  }
>  
> -static int metapage_invalidatepage(struct page *page, unsigned long
> offset)
> +static void metapage_invalidatepage(struct page *page, unsigned long
> offset)
>  {
>         BUG_ON(offset);
>  
> -       if (PageWriteback(page))
> -               return 0;
> +       BUG_ON(PageWriteback(page));

I'm a little concerned about adding a BUG_ON for something this function
used to allow, but it looks like the BUG_ON is valid.  I'm asking myself
why did I add the test for PageWriteback in the first place.

>  
> -       return metapage_releasepage(page, 0);
> +       metapage_releasepage(page, 0);
>  }
>  
>  struct address_space_operations jfs_metapage_aops = { 

I'll try to stress test jfs with these patches to see if I can trigger
the an oops here.
-- 
David Kleikamp
IBM Linux Technology Center


  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-13 16:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-12 23:53 [PATCH 000 of 4] Introduction: VFS documentation and tidy up NeilBrown
2006-03-12 23:53 ` [PATCH 001 of 4] Update some VFS documentation NeilBrown
2006-03-13  0:22   ` Avishay Traeger
2006-03-13  4:14     ` [PATCH 001 of 4] Update some VFS documentation fix Neil Brown
2006-03-13  4:58   ` [PATCH 001 of 4] Update some VFS documentation Randy.Dunlap
2006-03-12 23:53 ` [PATCH 002 of 4] Honour AOP_TRUNCATE_PAGE returns in page_symlink NeilBrown
2006-03-12 23:53 ` [PATCH 003 of 4] Make address_space_operations->sync_page return void NeilBrown
2006-03-12 23:53 ` [PATCH 004 of 4] Make address_space_operations->invalidatepage " NeilBrown
2006-03-13 16:32   ` Dave Kleikamp [this message]
2006-03-13 19:13     ` Dave Kleikamp
2006-03-13 21:36       ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-13 23:05         ` Neil Brown
2006-03-13 23:10     ` Neil Brown
2006-03-13 23:22       ` Dave Kleikamp

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