linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 0/3] Rewrite ext4_page

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Message-ID: <20110511164836.GG18929@tux1.beaverton.ibm.com>
Date:	Wed, 11 May 2011 09:48:36 -0700
From:	"Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@...ibm.com>
To:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:	"Ted Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Rewrite ext4_page_mkwrite, fix fs freezing

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 11:27:52AM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Tue 10-05-11 20:30:12, Ted Tso wrote:
> > On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 12:29:31AM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> > > 
> > >   following three patches reimplement ext4_page_mkwrite() so that it returns
> > > locked pages (which is necessary for stable pages work and also for fixing of
> > > freezing code). As a bonus we also avoid taking i_alloc_sem as it's not
> > > necessary and use generic block_page_mkwrite() helper. The common delalloc
> > > path should be more straightforward now.
> > 
> > How does this relate to Darrick Wong's patches?  Are your patches in
> > addition to or instead of his?
>   It's in addition to those (although with my patches, a generic change to
> block_page_mkwrite() would be enough for ext4). If you plan to merge those
> now, I can rediff on top of those patches.

Just to be clear, your new __block_page_mkwrite still needs a patch to call
wait_on_page_writeback to provide stable page writes, correct?

I think we'd still need a wait_on_page_writeback for the "all buffers are
mapped" VM_FAULT_LOCKED exit from ext4_page_mkwrite?

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