On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 16:45, Andrew Morton wrote: > Badari Pulavarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > What's all this doing? (It needs comments please - it's very unobvious). > > > > All its trying to do is - to make sure the page is uptodate so that > > it can zero out the portion thats needed. > > OK. > > > I can do getblock() and ll_rw_block(READ) instead. I was > > trying to re-use the code and mpage_readpage() drops the lock. > > What do you think ? > > Can you just call ->prepare_write, as nobh_truncate_page() does? That'll > cause a nested transaction, but that's legal. >
Thats what I tried earlier, but never got it working. Lots of journal asserts :( I guess I really need to learn journaling code someday. Thanks, Badari - 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/
