* block_page_mkwrite? (Re: fault vs invalidate race (Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23))
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@ 2007-07-12 2:31 ` David Chinner
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From: David Chinner @ 2007-07-12 2:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Nick Piggin
Cc: Andrew Morton, linux-kernel, Linux Memory Management,
linux-fsdevel, xfs-oss
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 10:54:57AM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > The fault-vs-invalidate race fix. I have belatedly learned that these
> > need
> > more work, so their state is uncertain.
>
> The more work may turn out being too much for you (although it is nothing
> exactly tricky that would introduce subtle bugs, it is a fair amont of
> churn).
OK, so does that mean we can finally get the block_page_mkwrite
patches merged?
i.e.:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=117426058311032&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=117426070111136&w=2
I've got up-to-date versions of them ready to go and they've been
consistently tested thanks to the XFSQA test I wrote for the bug
that it fixes. I've been holding them out-of-tree for months now
because ->fault was supposed to supercede this interface.....
Cheers,
Dave.
--
Dave Chinner
Principal Engineer
SGI Australian Software Group
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