linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 03/27] afs: Use wait_on_page_writeback

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Message-ID: <20210322194123.GV1719932@casper.infradead.org>
Date:   Mon, 22 Mar 2021 19:41:23 +0000
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-cachefs@...hat.com,
        linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 03/27] afs: Use wait_on_page_writeback_killable

On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 09:27:26AM +0000, David Howells wrote:
> Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@...radead.org> wrote:
> 
> > Open-coding this function meant it missed out on the recent bugfix
> > for waiters being woken by a delayed wake event from a previous
> > instantiation of the page.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@...radead.org>
> 
> Acked-and-tested-by: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
> 
> Should this be pushed upstream now as well if it's missing out on a bugfix?

I would be delighted for you to take these first three patches through
your tree and push them for, say, -rc5.