Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> However we >>>could still set_page_dirty of a block device page without buffers >>>via an mmap. >> >> >> After the page is made dirty via mmap we have: >> sys_write -> ... -> block_prepare_write -> ... -> create_empty_buffers. > > Yep, that's what I mean. > > >> I suspect that is a pretty rare case but it does indeed seem to exist >> as a problem. > > I think so too. But either we have some misunderstanding of the > codepaths involved, or the author of the comments there didn't > consider this case, so...
Which is likely. Which is why I brought up the try_to_free_buffers case. There has been some significant dancing around trying to sort things out and make them race free in this code. Eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/