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Date:	Mon, 23 Jul 2007 13:54:16 -0700
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
Cc:	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Adam Litke <agl@...ibm.com>,
	David Gibson <david@...son.dropbear.id.au>,
	Ken Chen <kenchen@...gle.com>, Bill Irwin <wli@...omorphy.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Check for compound pages in set_page_dirty()

On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:35:17 +0100 (BST)
Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com> wrote:

> I didn't see any attention to set_page_dirty in Christoph's
> Large Blocksize (variable page_cachesize) patches, but I expect
> he'd also be wanting set_page_dirty to act on compound_head.

There is no need for special casing if set_page_dirty() is only
ever called for page heads. Make sure that direct I/O does not call
set_page_dirty for tail pages.

A VM_BUG_ON(PageTail(page)) could be used to make sure that this
does not happen in the future?
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