Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 19 Mar 2007 21:11:31 +1100 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1 of 2] block_page_mkwrite() Implementation V2 |
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Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 10:30:08AM +1100, David Chinner wrote: > >>Generic page_mkwrite functionality. >> >>Filesystems that make use of the VM ->page_mkwrite() callout will generally use >>the same core code to implement it. There are several tricky truncate-related >>issues that we need to deal with here as we cannot take the i_mutex as we >>normally would for these paths. These issues are not documented anywhere yet >>so block_page_mkwrite() seems like the best place to start. > > > This will need some updates when ->fault replaces ->page_mkwrite. > > Nich, what's the plan for merging ->fault?
I've got the patches in -mm now. I hope they will get merged when the the next window opens.
I didn't submit the ->page_mkwrite conversion yet, because I didn't have any callers to look at. It is is slightly less trivial than for nopage and nopfn, so having David's block_page_mkwrite is helpful.
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