linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 11/26] 9p: Use alternative invalidation to using launder

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Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2024 00:03:10 +0100
From: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To: Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>
Cc: dhowells@...hat.com, Christian Brauner <christian@...uner.io>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/26] 9p: Use alternative invalidation to using launder_folio

Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org> wrote:

> Shouldn't this include a call to filemap_invalidate_inode? Is just
> removing launder_folio enough to do this?

Good point.  netfs_unbuffered_write_iter() calls kiocb_invalidate_pages() -
which uses invalidate_inode_pages2_range() to discard the pagecache.  It
should probably use filemap_invalidate_inode() instead.

David