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From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [patch 3/3] fs: fix cont vs deadlock patches
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 04:47:26 +0100
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On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 12:41:25PM +0900, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
> Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> writes:
> >
> > So basically this is changing from having prepare_write do all the
> > zeroing, to zeroing the last page in generic_cont_expand, so that
> > we don't have to pass a zero-length to prepare_write?
> 
> Yes, this patch doesn't pass zero-length to prepare_write. However,
> I'm not checking this patch is ok for reiserfs...

OK, I'm doing some testing with it now...