From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751228AbWFBInd (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jun 2006 04:43:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751231AbWFBInd (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jun 2006 04:43:33 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:16006 "EHLO mx2.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751228AbWFBInd (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jun 2006 04:43:33 -0400 Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 10:43:27 +0200 From: Olaf Hering To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, viro@ftp.linux.org.uk Subject: Re: [PATCH] cramfs corruption after BLKFLSBUF on loop device Message-ID: <20060602084327.GA3964@suse.de> References: <20060529214011.GA417@suse.de> <20060530182453.GA8701@suse.de> <20060601184938.GA31376@suse.de> <20060601121200.457c0335.akpm@osdl.org> <20060601201050.GA32221@suse.de> <20060601142400.1352f903.akpm@osdl.org> <20060601214158.GA438@suse.de> <20060601145747.274df976.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060601145747.274df976.akpm@osdl.org> X-DOS: I got your 640K Real Mode Right Here Buddy! X-Homeland-Security: You are not supposed to read this line! You are a terrorist! User-Agent: Mutt und vi sind doch schneller als Notes (und GroupWise) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jun 01, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Do you want it like that? > > > > lock_page(page); > > if (PageUptodate(page)) { > > SetPageDirty(page); > > mb(); > > return page; > > } > > Not really ;) It's hacky. It'd be better to take a lock. Which lock exactly? I'm not sure how to proceed from here.