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 10:24:22 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <84144f020710250024q683cfff2ubd1f8bda75415e2c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710250705510.9811@blonde.wat.veritas.com>
Hi Hugh,
On 10/25/07, Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> wrote:
> With unionfs also fixed, we don't know of an absolute need for this
> patch (and so, on that basis, the !wbc->for_reclaim case could indeed
> be removed very soon); but as I see it, the unionfs case has shown
> that it's time to future-proof this code against whatever stacking
> filesystems come along.
Heh, what can I say, after several readings, I still find your above
explanation (which I totally agree with) more to the point than the
actual comment :-).
In any case, the patch looks good to me.
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Pekka
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-25 7:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200710071920.l97JKJX5018871@agora.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu>
2007-10-11 21:47 ` msync(2) bug(?), returns AOP_WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE to userland 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
2007-10-25 6:30 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-10-25 7:24 ` Pekka Enberg [this message]
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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