Re: [PATCH] filemap_fdatasync & related changes

Marcelo Tosatti (marcelo@conectiva.com.br)
Thu, 4 Jan 2001 12:41:41 -0200 (BRST)


On 4 Jan 2001, Christoph Rohland wrote:

> Chris Mason <mason@suse.com> writes:
> > Just noticed the filemap_fdatasync code doesn't check the return value from
> > writepage. Linus, would you take a patch that redirtied the page, puts it
> > back onto the dirty list (at the tail), and unlocks the page when writepage
> > returns 1?
> >
> > That would loop forever if the writepage func kept returning 1 though...I
> > think that's what we want, unless someone like ramfs made a writepage func
> > that always returned 1.
>
> shmem has such a writepage for locked shm segments.

The correct thing seems to be wait for this lock in case of
fdatasync/sync/etc, then.

What about a sync parameter to ->writepage() ?

> return 1 if the swap space is exhausted. So everybody using shared
> anonymous, SYSV shared or POSIX shared memory can hit this.

In case of swap exhausted I think we should just fail.

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