From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail144.messagelabs.com (mail144.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.51]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AF646B004F for ; Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:17:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: from d28relay02.in.ibm.com (d28relay02.in.ibm.com [9.184.220.59]) by e28smtp04.in.ibm.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n5FIIAbD009479 for ; Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:48:10 +0530 Received: from d28av03.in.ibm.com (d28av03.in.ibm.com [9.184.220.65]) by d28relay02.in.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v9.2) with ESMTP id n5FIHx9G950432 for ; Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:47:59 +0530 Received: from d28av03.in.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d28av03.in.ibm.com (8.13.1/8.13.3) with ESMTP id n5FIHxhV012815 for ; Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:17:59 +1000 Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:47:53 +0530 From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/10] Fix page_mkwrite() for blocksize < pagesize (version 3) Message-ID: <20090615181753.GA26615@skywalker> References: <1245088797-29533-1-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1245088797-29533-1-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Jan Kara Cc: LKML , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, npiggin@suse.de List-ID: On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 07:59:47PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > > patches below are an attempt to solve problems filesystems have with > page_mkwrite() when blocksize < pagesize (see the changelog of the second patch > for details). > > Could someone please review them so that they can get merged - especially the > generic VFS/MM part? It fixes observed problems (WARN_ON triggers) for ext4 and > makes ext2/ext3 behave more nicely (mmapped write getting page fault instead > of silently discarding data). Will you be able to send it as two series. a) One that fix the blocksize < page size bug b) making ext2/3 mmaped write give better allocation pattern. Doing that will make sure (a) can go in this merge window. There are other ext4 fixes waiting for (a) to be merged in. > > The series is against Linus's tree from today. The differences against previous > version are one bugfix in ext3 delalloc implementation... Please test and review. > Thanks. -aneesh -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org