linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] nfs: fix nfs

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Date:	Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:02:45 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nfs: fix nfs_writepage()

On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 16:55 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 11:47:54AM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > Put differently:
> >       * _who_ is dirtying the page when the swapper is trying to write
> >         the page out?
> >       * why are they not calling either page_mkwrite() or
> >         commit_write()?
> 
> Apparently Peter has some broken patches in his tree that cause this.
> It can for sure not happen in mainline and that's absolutely intentional.

Yeah, I got fooled by thinking swapper_space was 'proper' usage.


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