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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Nikita Danilov <Nikita@Namesys.COM>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <Torvalds@Transmeta.COM>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <Linux-Kernel@Vger.Kernel.ORG>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: reiser4 [5/8] export remove_from_page_cache()
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 17:12:01 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021031171201.A11958@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15809.25256.143498.726816@laputa.namesys.com>; from Nikita@Namesys.COM on Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 08:04:40PM +0300

On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 08:04:40PM +0300, Nikita Danilov wrote:
> Interesting. But things like ->vm_writeback() and friends will go
> directly to the page bypassing metapage wrapper, right?

Yes.

> JFS checks that
> page is still "live" on each low-level VM call?

Well, if the exntent in question doesn't exist anymore get_block()
will return a failure.  In practice that won't happen as those
pages still kept around are never dirty.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-31 17:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-31 16:03 [PATCH]: reiser4 [5/8] export remove_from_page_cache() Nikita Danilov
2002-10-31 16:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-31 16:24   ` Nikita Danilov
2002-10-31 16:31     ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-31 16:45       ` Nikita Danilov
2002-10-31 16:58         ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-31 17:04           ` Nikita Danilov
2002-10-31 17:12             ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2002-10-31 17:33       ` Andreas Dilger
2002-10-31 18:25         ` Nikita Danilov
2002-10-31 20:17         ` Ragnar Kjørstad
2002-10-31 18:57       ` Linus Torvalds
2002-11-01 21:56         ` Andreas Dilger

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