Subject: Re: 2.6.4-mm2
From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 15:33, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Chris Mason <mason@suse.com> wrote:
> >
> > [ data not getting flushed ]
> > 
> > Ummm, this might help:
> 
> Pedant.
> 
;-)

wait_on_page_writeback_range() does a pagevec_lookup_tag on 
min(end - index + 1, (pgoff_t)PAGEVEC_SIZE)

Which translates to: (unsigned long)-1 - 0 + 1, which is 0.

It doesn't look like anyone is using the range feature of this function,
can we make it just wait on all the writeback pages?

-chris


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