Re: [PATCH 1 of 2] block_page_mkwrite() Implementation V2

Christoph Hellwig
2007-03-19T09:22:22Z

On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 10:30:08AM +1100, David Chinner wrote:
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> Generic page_mkwrite functionality.
>
> Filesystems that make use of the VM ->page_mkwrite() callout will generally use
> the same core code to implement it. There are several tricky truncate-related
> issues that we need to deal with here as we cannot take the i_mutex as we
> normally would for these paths. These issues are not documented anywhere yet
> so block_page_mkwrite() seems like the best place to start.

This will need some updates when ->fault replaces ->page_mkwrite.

Nich, what's the plan for merging ->fault?