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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Jingbo Xu <jefflexu@linux.alibaba.com>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	brauner@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm/truncate: don't skip dirty page in folio_unmap_invalidate()
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2025 09:23:01 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <65e5ddcd-642b-4671-b814-d4a66b2039d3@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b2248d8c-1f80-4806-80fb-cbc40ad713e6@linux.alibaba.com>

On 2/18/25 6:23 PM, Jingbo Xu wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2/18/25 8:32 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 08:02:09PM +0800, Jingbo Xu wrote:
>>> ... otherwise this is a behavior change for the previous callers of
>>> invalidate_complete_folio2(), e.g. the page invalidation routine.
>>
>> Hm. Shouldn't the check be moved to caller of the helper in mm/filemap.c?
>>
>> Otherwise we would drop pages without writing them back. And lose user's
>> data.
>>
> 
> IMHO this check is not needed as the following folio_launder() called
> inside folio_unmap_invalidate() will write back the dirty page.
> 
> Hi Jens,
> 
> What do you think about it?

Yep agree on that.

-- 
Jens Axboe



  reply	other threads:[~2025-02-19 16:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-02-18 12:02 [PATCH 0/2] fixes for uncached IO Jingbo Xu
2025-02-18 12:02 ` [PATCH 1/2] mm/filemap: fix miscalculated file range for filemap_fdatawrite_range_kick() Jingbo Xu
2025-02-19 16:25   ` Jens Axboe
2025-02-18 12:02 ` [PATCH 2/2] mm/truncate: don't skip dirty page in folio_unmap_invalidate() Jingbo Xu
2025-02-18 12:32   ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2025-02-19  1:23     ` Jingbo Xu
2025-02-19 16:23       ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2025-02-19  0:11   ` Dave Chinner
2025-02-19  1:55     ` Jingbo Xu
2025-02-21 11:09 ` [PATCH 0/2] fixes for uncached IO Jingbo Xu
2025-02-21 13:10 ` Christian Brauner

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