Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 7 Sep 2002 11:51:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 7 Sep 2002 11:51:16 -0400 Received: from packet.digeo.com ([12.110.80.53]:25481 "EHLO packet.digeo.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 7 Sep 2002 11:51:15 -0400 Message-ID: <3D7A24D2.DF572685@digeo.com> Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2002 09:09:54 -0700 From: Andrew Morton X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.5.33 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel@digeo.com, Phillips@digeo.com CC: trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no, Chuck Lever , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: invalidate_inode_pages in 2.5.32/3 References: <3D77D879.7F7A3385@zip.com.au> <15735.64356.246705.392224@charged.uio.no> <3D780027.13A5B3B@zip.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 07 Sep 2002 15:55:49.0302 (UTC) FILETIME=[09194560:01C25687] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 804 Lines: 20 Daniel Phillips wrote: > > > That might work. It's a bit of a hassle that ->releasepage() must > > be nonblocking, but generally it just wants to grab locks, decrement > > refcounts and free things. > > Err. I really really wonder why the vfs is not supposed to know > about these goings on, to the extent of being able to take care of > them itself. ->releasepage() was originally added for ext3, which has additional ordering constraints, and has additional references to the page's blocks. reiserfs has a releasepage in 2.5. XFS has a ->releasepage. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/