linux-kernel - Re: [patch 2/2] splice: dont readpage

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Date:	Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:54:54 +0100
From:	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
To:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] splice: dont readpage

On Wed, Mar 14 2007, Nick Piggin wrote:
> 
> Splice does not need to readpage to bring the page uptodate before writing
> to it, because prepare_write will take care of that for us.

Ah great, always good to get rid of some code.

> Splice is also wrong to SetPageUptodate before the page is actually uptodate.
> This results in the old uninitialised memory leak. This gets fixed as a
> matter of course when removing the readpage logic.

Leak, how? The page should still be locked all through to the copy.
Anyway, doesn't matter since you've killed it anyway. I have applied
this patch.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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