On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 08:18:50AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 01:37:49PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 08:31:57PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > Failing to invalid the page cache means data in incoherent, which is
> > > a very bad state for the system.  Always fall back to buffered I/O
> > > through the page cache if we can't invalidate mappings.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <h...@lst.de>
> > > Acked-by: Dave Chinner <dchin...@redhat.com>
> > > Reviewed-by: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgold...@suse.com>
> > 
> > For the iomap and xfs parts,
> > Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.w...@oracle.com>
> > 
> > But I'd still like acks from Ted, Andreas, and Damien for ext4, gfs2,
> > and zonefs, respectively.
> > 
> > (Particularly if anyone was harboring ideas about trying to get this in
> > before 5.10, though I've not yet heard anyone say that explicitly...)
> 
> Why would we want to wait another whole merge window?

Well it /is/ past -rc6, which is a tad late...

OTOH we've been talking about this for 2 months now and most of the
actual behavior change is in xfs land so maybe it's fine. :)

--D

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