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From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>,
	Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Alexander Viro <aviro@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <andrewm@uow.edu.au>,
	"Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>, Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>,
	Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>,
	MOLNAR Ingo <mingo@chiara.elte.hu>
Subject: Re: test12-pre5
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 17:09:50 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001205170950.D10663@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0012042232220.7166-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu> <Pine.LNX.4.10.10012041955000.860-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10012041955000.860-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>; from torvalds@transmeta.com on Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 08:00:03PM -0800

Hi,

On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 08:00:03PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Alexander Viro wrote:
> > 
> This _is_ what clear_inode() does in pre5 (and in pre4, for that matter):
> 
> 	void clear_inode(struct inode *inode)
> 	{  
> 	        if (!list_empty(&inode->i_dirty_buffers))
> 	                invalidate_inode_buffers(inode);

That is still buggy.  We MUST NOT invalidate the inode buffers unless
i_nlink == 0, because otherwise a subsequent open() and fsync() will
have forgotten what buffers are dirty, and hence will fail to
synchronise properly with the disk.

Al, I agreed with your observation on bforget() needing the
remove_inode_queue() call.  Is there anywhere else we need it?

--Stephen
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2000-12-05 17:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-12-05  3:20 test12-pre5 Linus Torvalds
2000-12-05  3:42 ` test12-pre5 Alexander Viro
2000-12-05  4:00   ` test12-pre5 Linus Torvalds
2000-12-05  4:25     ` test12-pre5 Alexander Viro
2000-12-05 17:09     ` Stephen C. Tweedie [this message]
2000-12-05 17:28       ` test12-pre5 Alexander Viro
2000-12-05 17:48       ` test12-pre5 Linus Torvalds
2000-12-05 18:14         ` test12-pre5 Alexander Viro
2000-12-05 18:33           ` test12-pre5 Linus Torvalds
2000-12-05 18:59             ` test12-pre5 Alexander Viro
2000-12-05 19:48               ` test12-pre5 Linus Torvalds
2000-12-05 20:17                 ` test12-pre5 Alexander Viro
2000-12-05 23:15                   ` test12-pre5 Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-12-05 18:50         ` test12-pre5 Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-12-05  5:30 ` test12-pre5 Mohammad A. Haque
2000-12-05  7:51 ` test12-pre5 Andrew Morton
2000-12-05 15:48 ` test12-pre5 Daniel Phillips
2000-12-05 23:25 ` smbfs writepage & struct file Urban Widmark
2000-12-05 23:57   ` Linus Torvalds
2000-12-06 10:05     ` Trond Myklebust
2000-12-10 13:43     ` Urban Widmark
2000-12-06 13:18 ` test12-pre5 Panu Matilainen
     [not found] <00120522275601.09076@gimli>
2000-12-05 21:58 ` test12-pre5 Linus Torvalds

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