linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/10] Fix page_mkwrite() for blocksize

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Date:	Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:02:39 +0200
From:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, npiggin@...e.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/10] Fix page_mkwrite() for blocksize < pagesize (version 3)

> 
> patches below are an attempt to solve problems filesystems have with
> page_mkwrite() when blocksize < pagesize (see the changelog of the second patch
> for details).
> 
> Could someone please review them so that they can get merged - especially the
> generic VFS/MM part? It fixes observed problems (WARN_ON triggers) for ext4 and
> makes ext2/ext3 behave more nicely (mmapped write getting page fault instead
> of silently discarding data).
> 
> The series is against Linus's tree from today. The differences against previous
> version are one bugfix in ext3 delalloc implementation... Please test and review.
> Thanks.
  Sorry for the wrong patch numbering [x/11]. There are really just 10
patches in the series. The eleventh one is just a debugging patch I
don't want to merge.

									Honza
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
SuSE CR Labs
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