From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id m33so5221147wag.8 for ; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:14:17 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4df4ef0c0801231514ga32b513g4917d715f9888ac6@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 02:14:16 +0300 From: "Anton Salikhmetov" Subject: Re: [PATCH -v8 2/4] Update ctime and mtime for memory-mapped files In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <12010440803930-git-send-email-salikhmetov@gmail.com> <12010440822957-git-send-email-salikhmetov@gmail.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Linus Torvalds Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, jakob@unthought.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu, riel@redhat.com, ksm@42.dk, staubach@redhat.com, jesper.juhl@gmail.com, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, akpm@linux-foundation.org, protasnb@gmail.com, miklos@szeredi.hu, r.e.wolff@bitwizard.nl, hidave.darkstar@gmail.com, hch@infradead.org List-ID: 2008/1/23, Linus Torvalds : > > > On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Anton Salikhmetov wrote: > > > > Update ctime and mtime for memory-mapped files at a write access on > > a present, read-only PTE, as well as at a write on a non-present PTE. > > Ok, this one I'm applying. I agree that it leaves MS_ASYNC not updating > the file until the next sync actually happens, but I can't really bring > myself to care at least for an imminent 2.6.24 thing. The file times are > actually "correct" in the sense that they will now match when the IO is > done, and my man-page says that MS_ASYNC "schedules the io to be done". > > And I think this is better than we have now, and I don't think this part > is somethign that anybody really disagrees with. > > We can (and should) keep the MS_ASYNC issue open. Thank you! I have closed the bug #2645, because this patch solves the issue originally reported. > > Linus > -- 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