linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] radix_tree_tag_get() is not as safe as the docs make out [ver #2]

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Message-ID: <28335.1270589913@redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:38:33 +0100
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] radix_tree_tag_get() is not as safe as the docs make out [ver #2]


With this patch, I don't think I should need to modify FS-Cache.  There's the
possibility that we may think the page that we want to release is still being
written to the disk, but that should merely defer releasepage().

David
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