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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 14:21:16 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
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On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Alexander Viro wrote:
> 
> > I didn't actually miss it, I just looked at the users and decided that it
> > looks like they should never have this issue. But I might have missed
> > something. As far as I can tell, "read_cache_page()" is only used for
> > meta-data like things that cannot be truncated.
> 
> invalidate_inode_pages().

Nope. It checks the page count these days, so it would never kill such a
page from under us (we increment the page count while holding the
pagecache lock).

But yes, I'm starting to agree with you more and more..

		Linus

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