From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 11:59:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 11:58:59 -0500 Received: from smtpde02.sap-ag.de ([194.39.131.53]:31369 "EHLO smtpde02.sap-ag.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 11:58:42 -0500 To: Chris Mason Cc: Marcelo Tosatti , Linus Torvalds , Alexander Viro , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] filemap_fdatasync & related changes In-Reply-To: <774720000.978622231@tiny> From: Christoph Rohland In-Reply-To: <774720000.978622231@tiny> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Capitol Reef) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: 04 Jan 2001 18:01:38 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Chris Mason writes: > Yes, right now the shmem writepage calls are the only ones returning one at > all. But, the question of how to properly fsync/msync these kinds of pages > still stands. Returning from an fsync before writing them isn't correct. Yes, and [fm]sync should not do anything on shmem pages. There is nothing to sync. So everything is fine. Christoph - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/