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From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hugh@veritas.com
Subject: Re: shmem: convert to using splice instead of sendfile()
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 08:20:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070711062021.GF4587@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070710184347.037b6b3e.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On Tue, Jul 10 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 23:00:59 GMT Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> wrote:
> 
> > +static int shmem_readpage(struct file *file, struct page *page)
> > +{
> > +	struct inode *inode = page->mapping->host;
> > +	int error = shmem_getpage(inode, page->index, &page, SGP_CACHE, NULL);
> > +	unlock_page(page);
> > +	return error;
> > +}
> 
> Worried.  shmem_getpage() does
> 
> done:
> 	if (*pagep != filepage) {
> 		unlock_page(filepage);
> 		*pagep = filepage;
> 	}
> 	return 0;
> 
> so we end up unlocking an unlocked page?

It certainly looks like it - Hugh?

-- 
Jens Axboe


  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-11  6:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200707102300.l6AN0xM4026841@hera.kernel.org>
2007-07-11  1:43 ` shmem: convert to using splice instead of sendfile() Andrew Morton
2007-07-11  6:20   ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2007-07-11 16:33     ` Hugh Dickins

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