linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] loop: Refactor size calculation.

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Date:   Tue, 21 Apr 2020 08:26:22 -0700
From:   Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>
To:     Martijn Coenen <maco@...roid.com>
Cc:     Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Ming Lei <ming.lei@...hat.com>,
        Narayan Kamath <narayan@...gle.com>,
        Zimuzo Ezeozue <zezeozue@...gle.com>, kernel-team@...roid.com,
        linux-block <linux-block@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Martijn Coenen <maco@...gle.com>,
        Chaitanya Kulkarni <Chaitanya.Kulkarni@....com>,
        Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] loop: Refactor size calculation.

On 4/21/20 4:48 AM, Martijn Coenen wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 3:22 PM Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org> wrote:
>> Please also change the "kill_bdev should have truncated all the pages"
>> comment into something like "return -EAGAIN if any pages have been
>> dirtied after kill_bdev() returned".
> 
> Sure - would you prefer this to be in a separate change?

Since the comment "kill_bdev should have truncated all the pages" has to 
be moved, I think that it's fine to integrate the fix for that comment 
in this patch.

Thanks,

Bart.