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>>>>> " " == Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au> writes:

     > It's a bit worrisome if NFS is dependent upon successful
     > pagecache takedown in invalidate_inode_pages.

Why? We don't use all that buffer crap, so in principle
invalidate_inode_page() is only supposed to fail for us if

  - page is locked (i.e. new read in progress or something like that)
  - page is refcounted (by something like mmap()).

neither of which should be the case here.

Cheers,
  Trond
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