linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 2/2] ext4: let ext4_discard_partial_buffers handle pages without buffers correctly

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Message-ID: <20111214030558.GD6276@thunk.org>
Date:	Tue, 13 Dec 2011 22:05:58 -0500
From:	Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Yongqiang Yang <xiaoqiangnk@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, achender@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ext4: let ext4_discard_partial_buffers handle
 pages without buffers correctly

On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 05:15:26PM +0800, Yongqiang Yang wrote:
> If a page has been read to memory and never been written, it has no buffers,
> but we should handle the page in truncate or punch hole.
> 
> Vfs code of writing operations has handled holes correctly, so this patch removes
> the code handling hole in writing operations.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yongqiang Yang <xiaoqiangnk@...il.com>

Thanks, applied.

						- Ted
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