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From: "Pekka Enberg" <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: "Hugh Dickins" <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	ezk@cs.sunysb.edu, ryan@finnie.org, mhalcrow@us.ibm.com,
	cjwatson@ubuntu.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH+comment] fix tmpfs BUG and AOP_WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 08:37:26 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <84144f020710242237q3aa8e96dtc8cf3f02f2af2cc9@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710242233470.17796@blonde.wat.veritas.com>

Hi Hugh,

On 10/25/07, Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> wrote:
> --- 2.6.24-rc1/mm/shmem.c       2007-10-24 07:16:04.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux/mm/shmem.c    2007-10-24 22:31:09.000000000 +0100
> @@ -915,6 +915,21 @@ static int shmem_writepage(struct page *
>         struct inode *inode;
>
>         BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));
> +       /*
> +        * shmem_backing_dev_info's capabilities prevent regular writeback or
> +        * sync from ever calling shmem_writepage; but a stacking filesystem
> +        * may use the ->writepage of its underlying filesystem, in which case

I find the above bit somewhat misleading as it implies that the
!wbc->for_reclaim case can be removed after ecryptfs has similar fix
as unionfs. Can we just say that while BDI_CAP_NO_WRITEBACK does
prevent some callers from entering ->writepage(), it's just an
optimization and ->writepage() must deal with !wbc->for_reclaim case
properly?

                                          Pekka

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-25  5:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-07 19:20 msync(2) bug(?), returns AOP_WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE to userland Erez Zadok
2007-10-11 21:47 ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-11 22:12   ` Ryan Finnie
2007-10-12  0:38     ` Hugh Dickins
2007-10-12 21:45       ` Pekka Enberg
2007-10-14  8:44         ` Hugh Dickins
2007-10-14 17:09           ` Pekka Enberg
2007-10-14 17:23             ` Erez Zadok
2007-10-14 17:50               ` Pekka J Enberg
2007-10-14 22:32                 ` Erez Zadok
2007-10-15 11:47                   ` Pekka Enberg
2007-10-16 18:02                     ` Erez Zadok
2007-10-22 20:16                     ` Hugh Dickins
2007-10-22 20:48                       ` Pekka Enberg
2007-10-25 15:36                         ` Hugh Dickins
2007-10-25 16:44                           ` Erez Zadok
2007-10-25 18:23                             ` Hugh Dickins
2007-10-26  2:00                           ` Neil Brown
2007-10-26  8:09                             ` Pekka Enberg
2007-10-26 11:26                             ` Hugh Dickins
2007-10-26  8:05                           ` Pekka Enberg
2007-10-22 21:04                       ` Erez Zadok
2007-10-25 16:40                         ` Hugh Dickins
2007-10-24 21:02                       ` [PATCH] fix tmpfs BUG and AOP_WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE Hugh Dickins
2007-10-24 21:08                         ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-24 21:37                           ` [PATCH+comment] " Hugh Dickins
2007-10-25  5:37                             ` Pekka Enberg [this message]
2007-10-25  6:30                               ` Hugh Dickins
2007-10-25  7:24                                 ` Pekka Enberg
2007-10-25 16:01                                 ` Erez Zadok
2007-10-25 20:51                                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-10-22 20:01                   ` msync(2) bug(?), returns AOP_WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE to userland Hugh Dickins
2007-10-22 20:40                     ` Pekka Enberg
2007-10-22 19:42               ` Hugh Dickins
2007-10-22 21:38                 ` Erez Zadok
2007-10-25 18:03                   ` Hugh Dickins
2007-10-27 20:47                     ` Erez Zadok
2007-10-28 20:23                     ` Erez Zadok
2007-10-29 20:33                       ` Hugh Dickins
2007-10-31 23:53                         ` Erez Zadok
2007-11-05 15:40                           ` Hugh Dickins
2007-11-05 16:38                             ` Dave Hansen
2007-11-05 18:57                               ` Hugh Dickins
2007-11-09  2:47                               ` Erez Zadok
2007-11-09  6:05                             ` Erez Zadok
2007-11-12  5:41                               ` Hugh Dickins
2007-11-12 17:01                               ` Hugh Dickins
2007-11-13 10:18                                 ` Erez Zadok
2007-11-17 21:24                                   ` Hugh Dickins
2007-11-20  1:30                                     ` Erez Zadok

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