Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753533AbWLRIpZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Dec 2006 03:45:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753534AbWLRIpZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Dec 2006 03:45:25 -0500 Received: from smtp101.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([209.191.85.211]:43932 "HELO smtp101.mail.mud.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753533AbWLRIpZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Dec 2006 03:45:25 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com.au; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:X-Accept-Language:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=khIlXTDfOjFuqBrHuEfioTwZNQTIYbU8GE/6w/oKH15+TBTDR2QkFlUXQqJyJ4VK78eJV9Vcv5kzQg5ASdSQ8o3yyLO5jjWEqd3jDSMZTI2bP5hWfoiFs2leZgd2RTNOphMV82RZfl4Gfc8j+7VHBjaYU8ZqOumCJoHeiT90p/w= ; X-YMail-OSG: XVcPK7kVM1nEoY6HIVFWV.cle92i8F5s_BVcp9vbLqK3aFZuxtDQyoLI65qjTKP7V5e3uDec3J4ws8bKT_aI3QHd5gNNnyLQRkJL.s1vF8QwxCN9pIqyQ1sqH2ZMvVy_tHZz19arkC3pnVI- Message-ID: <45864380.1010201@yahoo.com.au> Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 18:30:08 +1100 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051007 Debian/1.7.12-1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Andrew Morton , andrei.popa@i-neo.ro, Linux Kernel Mailing List , Peter Zijlstra , Hugh Dickins , Florian Weimer , Marc Haber , Martin Michlmayr Subject: Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3 References: <1166314399.7018.6.camel@localhost> <20061217040620.91dac272.akpm@osdl.org> <1166362772.8593.2.camel@localhost> <20061217154026.219b294f.akpm@osdl.org> <45861E68.3060403@yahoo.com.au> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 832 Lines: 24 Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Nick Piggin wrote: > >>I can't see how that's exactly a problem -- so long as the page does not >>get reclaimed (it won't, because we have a ref on it) then all that matters >>is that the page eventually gets marked dirty. > > > But the point being that "try_to_free_buffers()" marks it clean > AFTERWARDS. For some reason I thought you were suggesting it is a problem on its own :P Yes I agree there is a pagefault vs ttfb race. -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com - 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/