Re: page_launder() bug

David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Mon, 7 May 2001 20:29:24 -0700 (PDT)


Marcelo Tosatti writes:
> > Hmmm, can't this happen without my patch?
>
> No. We will never call writepage() without __GFP_IO without your patch.
>

I see, because launder_loop never progresses to 1 in that case.

My patch is crap and can cause corruptions, there is not argument
about it now :-)

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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