Re: [PATCH] filemap_fdatasync & related changes

Christoph Rohland (cr@sap.com)
04 Jan 2001 18:01:38 +0100


Chris Mason <mason@suse.com> writes:

> Yes, right now the shmem writepage calls are the only ones returning one at
> all. But, the question of how to properly fsync/msync these kinds of pages
> still stands. Returning from an fsync before writing them isn't correct.

Yes, and [fm]sync should not do anything on shmem pages. There is
nothing to sync. So everything is fine.

Christoph

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