linux-kernel - Re: Question about invalidate_inode_pages2

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Date:	Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:26:27 +0900
From:	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no>
To:	Peng Tao <lkml.bergwolf@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Question about invalidate_inode_pages2_range()

On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 16:16 +0800, Peng Tao wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've a question about invalidate_inode_pages2_range().
> 
> When does invalidate_inode_pages2_range() returns -EBUSY? It locks and
> writes back the page. Why invalidate_complete_page2() still may fail
> due to page dirtiness?

A lot of those requirements were set by NFS, which uses
invalidate_inode_pages2() in order to invalidate the page cache when it
detects that a file has been changed on the server (either due to an
O_DIRECT write, or due to another client modifying the file).

In such cases, you want to try to keep the dirty data by writing it out
instead of discarding it.

Cheers
  Trond

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