Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 16:47:41 -0700
From: "Barry K. Nathan" <barryn@pobox.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>, schlicht@uni-mannheim.de, green@namesys.com,
       barryn@pobox.com, piggin@cyberone.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] heavy disk access sometimes freezes 2.5.73-mm[123]
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On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 12:18:59PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> But we need to tell the VFS that the page was cleaned.
> 
> Could someone please make that clear_page_dirty() and retest?

Ok, I just did that -- indeed, that appears to fix it. Beneath my
e-mail signature is the fix, turned into a patch.

-Barry K. Nathan <barryn@pobox.com>

--- 2.5.74-bk2/fs/reiserfs/tail_conversion.c	2003-07-03 01:13:37.000000000 -0700
+++ 2.5.74-bk2-iserv/fs/reiserfs/tail_conversion.c	2003-07-07 16:36:01.000000000 -0700
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@
 	bh = next ;
       } while (bh != head) ;
       if ( PAGE_SIZE == bh->b_size ) {
-	ClearPageDirty(page);
+	clear_page_dirty(page);
       }
     }
   } 
-
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