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From: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
To: Neil Brown <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 17:22:52 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1142292172.9923.5.camel@kleikamp.austin.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17429.64506.967102.246581@cse.unsw.edu.au>

On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 10:10 +1100, Neil Brown wrote:
> On Monday March 13, shaggy@austin.ibm.com wrote:

> > 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.
> 
> Yes.... as far as I can tell, ->invalidatepage is only called with
> the page locked, and with Writeback clear, so PageWriteback can never
> be true.  So the BUG_ON should be a no-op.

Either I was being overly paranoid when I put in that test, or some code
previously called invalidatepage with Writeback set and it's since been
fixed.

> > I'll try to stress test jfs with these patches to see if I can trigger
> > the an oops here.
> 
> Thanks.  I'd be very interested if you do.
> I got on oops with a similar bug_on in the new nfs_invalidatepage and
> it turned out to be a bug in radixtree (which I had already found and
> fixed, but not in that source tree).

Aside from the jbd assert that Andrew fixed, my stress testing of jfs
was successful.  I ACK the jfs-specific part of the patch.
-- 
David Kleikamp
IBM Linux Technology Center


      reply	other threads:[~2006-03-13 23:23 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
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 [this message]

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