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From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [patch][rfc] mm: hold page lock over page_mkwrite
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:09:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090226110904.GA32178@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1235640018.4645.4692.camel@laptop>

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:20:18AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 10:36 +0100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > +               if (!page_mkwrite)
> > +                       wait_on_page_locked(dirty_page);
> >                 set_page_dirty_balance(dirty_page, page_mkwrite);
> >                 put_page(dirty_page);
> > +               if (page_mkwrite) {
> > +                       unlock_page(old_page);
> > +                       page_cache_release(old_page);
> > +               }
> 
> We're calling into the whole balance_dirty_pages() writeout path with a
> page locked.. is that sensible?

Yeah, probably should move the balance out of there.

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-26 11:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-25  9:36 [patch][rfc] mm: hold page lock over page_mkwrite Nick Piggin
2009-02-25 16:42 ` Zach Brown
2009-02-25 16:55   ` Nick Piggin
2009-02-25 16:58     ` Zach Brown
2009-02-25 17:02       ` Nick Piggin
2009-02-25 22:35         ` Mark Fasheh
2009-02-25 16:48 ` Chris Mason
2009-02-26  9:20 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-02-26 11:09   ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2009-03-01  8:17 ` Dave Chinner
2009-03-01 13:50   ` Nick Piggin
2009-03-02  8:19     ` Dave Chinner
2009-03-02  8:37       ` Nick Piggin
2009-03-02 15:26         ` jim owens
2009-03-03  4:33           ` Nick Piggin
2009-03-03 17:25             ` Jamie Lokier
2009-03-04  4:37               ` Dave Chinner
2009-03-04  9:23               ` Nick Piggin
2009-03-04 18:13                 ` Jamie Lokier

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