From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@innominate.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] filemap_fdatasync & related changes
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 23:52:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A54FEA8.F667F61B@innominate.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6740000.978629925@tiny> <Pine.LNX.4.10.10101040958310.15597-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I'd rather just change the rule that "writepage()" will clear the dirty
> bit itself and always unlock (and "1" just to inform the upper layers that
> the page cannot be thrown away).
Change to that rule or from? I *think* you just said:
- If ->writepage successfully starts writeout on the page it clears
the dirty bit and returns 0
- If not successful, ->writepage unlocks the page and return 1
Who is going to be responsible for checking that the page dirty bit was
really set, and what will happen if it wasn't?
--
Daniel
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Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-12-28 20:25 test13-pre5 Linus Torvalds
2000-12-28 18:39 ` test13-pre5 Marcelo Tosatti
2000-12-28 20:59 ` test13-pre5 Linus Torvalds
2000-12-28 19:22 ` test13-pre5 Marcelo Tosatti
2000-12-28 21:21 ` [wildly off-topic] test13-pre5 Rik van Riel
2000-12-28 19:31 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2000-12-28 21:39 ` test13-pre5 Daniel Phillips
2000-12-28 22:14 ` test13-pre5 Marcelo Tosatti
2000-12-29 1:10 ` test13-pre5 Linus Torvalds
2000-12-29 12:06 ` test13-pre5 Daniel Phillips
2000-12-28 22:17 ` test13-pre5 Andi Kleen
2000-12-28 22:33 ` test13-pre5 David S. Miller
2000-12-28 22:58 ` test13-pre5 Andi Kleen
2000-12-28 22:54 ` test13-pre5 David S. Miller
2000-12-28 23:17 ` test13-pre5 Andi Kleen
2000-12-28 23:14 ` test13-pre5 David S. Miller
2000-12-28 23:39 ` test13-pre5 Andi Kleen
2000-12-28 23:25 ` test13-pre5 Rik van Riel
2000-12-28 23:36 ` test13-pre5 Linus Torvalds
2000-12-28 23:03 ` test13-pre5 Rik van Riel
2000-12-29 15:46 ` test13-pre5 Mark Hemment
2000-12-29 16:30 ` test13-pre5 Tim Wright
2000-12-29 17:54 ` test13-pre5 Mark Hemment
2000-12-29 21:23 ` test13-pre5 David S. Miller
2000-12-29 21:51 ` test13-pre5 Linus Torvalds
2000-12-28 23:15 ` test13-pre5 Linus Torvalds
2000-12-28 23:25 ` test13-pre5 Andi Kleen
2000-12-28 23:37 ` test13-pre5 Linus Torvalds
2000-12-28 23:43 ` test13-pre5 Andi Kleen
2000-12-29 0:49 ` test13-pre5 Stefan Traby
2000-12-29 1:23 ` test13-pre5 Linus Torvalds
2000-12-29 1:06 ` test13-pre5 Albert Cranford
2000-12-29 14:53 ` test13-pre5 Stefan Traby
2000-12-30 13:24 ` test13-pre5 Geert Uytterhoeven
2000-12-31 17:21 ` test13-pre5 Andi Kleen
2000-12-31 17:27 ` test13-pre5 Linus Torvalds
2000-12-31 17:36 ` test13-pre5 Andi Kleen
2000-12-31 18:19 ` test13-pre5 Andrea Arcangeli
2000-12-31 18:06 ` test13-pre5 Andi Kleen
2000-12-31 18:07 ` test13-pre5 Matti Aarnio
2000-12-31 19:15 ` test13-pre5 Linus Torvalds
2000-12-31 19:49 ` test13-pre5 Andi Kleen
2000-12-31 18:10 ` test13-pre5 Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-01 19:58 ` test13-pre5 H. Peter Anvin
2000-12-29 16:49 ` [PATCH] filemap_fdatasync & related changes Marcelo Tosatti
2000-12-29 21:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-03 16:37 ` Chris Mason
2001-01-03 17:07 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-01-03 18:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-03 19:09 ` Chris Mason
2001-01-03 21:39 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-01-04 18:46 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-01-04 9:48 ` Christoph Rohland
2001-01-04 14:41 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-01-04 16:58 ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-04 17:38 ` Chris Mason
2001-01-04 18:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-04 22:52 ` Daniel Phillips [this message]
2001-01-04 15:30 ` Chris Mason
2001-01-04 17:01 ` Christoph Rohland
2000-12-28 21:27 ` test13-pre5 (via82cxxx_audio.c) Jonathan Hudson
2000-12-29 18:17 ` test13-pre5 Tom Rini
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