Re: Checking page_count(page) in invalidate_complete_page

Steve Dickson
2006-09-25T22:50:20Z

Andrew Morton wrote:

> I think invalidate_inode_pages2() is sufficiently different from (ie:
> stronger than) invalidate_inode_pages() to justify the addition of a new
> invalidate_complete_page2(), which skips the page refcount check.
Removing the page refcount does fix the problem at least the
one we are seeing with NFS not being able to flush its readdir cache..

steved.