linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6/6] ubifs: Wait for page writeback to provide stable pages

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Message-ID: <5125EAB1.9070002@panasas.com>
Date:	Thu, 21 Feb 2013 11:36:49 +0200
From:	Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@...asas.com>
To:	"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, <axboe@...nel.dk>,
	<lucho@...kov.net>, <jack@...e.cz>, <ericvh@...il.com>,
	<viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, <rminnich@...dia.gov>, <tytso@....edu>,
	<martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com>, <neilb@...e.de>,
	Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>, <david@...morbit.com>,
	<gnehzuil.liu@...il.com>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<hch@...radead.org>, <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>, <jlayton@...ba.org>,
	<linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org>, <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
	<hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] ubifs: Wait for page writeback to provide stable
 pages

On 02/21/2013 05:48 AM, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 01:43:12PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 17:13:16 -0800
>> "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com> wrote:
>>
>>> When stable pages are required, we have to wait if the page is just
>>> going to disk and we want to modify it. Add proper callback to
>>> ubifs_vm_page_mkwrite().
>>>
>>> CC: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com>
>>> CC: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>
>>> CC: linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org
>>> From: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
>>> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
>>> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
>>
>> A couple of these patches had this From:Jan strangely embedded in the
>> signoff area.  I have assumed that they were indeed authored by Jan.
>>
>> Please note that authorship is indicated by putting the From: line
>> right at the start of the chagnelog.
>>
>>
>> I grabbed the patches.  They should appear in linux-next tomorrow if I
>> can get the current pooppile to build.
> 
> Well... these patches have been banging around in -next for a month or so now.
> As far as I know there haven't been any complaints.  Can we push these for 3.9?
> 

Yes, please I'm waiting for these patches as well. Lets push them this merge
window. I was sure they would get in at 3.8, but they didn't. What's the delay?

[Using this I can fix a theoretical raid corruption in exofs local access, which
 no one really cared because exofs is always accessed via pnfs, which does not
 have that bug]

Thanks
Boaz

> --D
> 

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