linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: Warn when page is dirtied without buffers

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Message-ID: <20161201164724.d7wyytkdbv5tbrdw@thunk.org>
Date:   Thu, 1 Dec 2016 11:47:24 -0500
From:   Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:     Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: Warn when page is dirtied without buffers

On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 03:01:42PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> Warn when a page is dirtied without buffers (as that will likely lead to
> a crash in ext4_writepages()) or when it gets newly dirtied without the
> page being locked (as there is nothing that prevents buffers to get
> stripped just before calling set_page_dirty() under memory pressure).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>

Thanks, applied.

					- Ted
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