Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:56:55 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [patch v3] splice: fix race with page invalidation |
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On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > You are being unfair: after having talked it over with Nick I > resubmitted this patch (not the same), which was added to -mm and > nobody complained then. Then it got thrown out of -mm during the merge > window because of a conflict, and then now I got around to > resubmitting it again.
Ok, fair enough. I don't follow -mm myself (since as far as I'm concerned, a lot of the point of -mm is that Andrew takes a lot of load off me). So yes, it was unfair and yes, I'd never have reacted to it in -mm.
But I'd really like to get that PG_uptodate bit just fixed - both wrt writeout errors and wrt truncate/holepunch. We had some similar issues wrt ext3 (?) inode buffers, where removing the uptodate bit actually ended up being a mistake.
Linus
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