mark_buffer_dirty semantical change in 2.3.43

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Tue, 15 Feb 2000 17:41:34 +0100 (CET)


In 2.3.43 I changed mark_buffer_dirty() to be blocking as in 2.2.x to fix
all the filesystems out there in 2.3.43/fs/*/*.[ch].

I am providing a new call __mark_buffer_dirty() not blocking usable inside
critical sections that holds fs spinlocks. Using __mark_buffer_dirty()
means that you'll have to call balance_dirty() as soon as you can sleep as
you was just used to do with the mark_buffer_dirty() of 2.3.x kernels
previous than 2.3.43.

Andrea

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