From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: Stefan.Bader@de.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: correction: fs/buffer.c underlocking async pages
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 19:15:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010621191522.B28327@athlon.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010621173833.L29084@athlon.random> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0106210955180.1260-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0106210955180.1260-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>; from torvalds@transmeta.com on Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 09:56:04AM -0700
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 09:56:04AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
What's the problem with the existing code, and why do people want to add a
> (unnecessary) new bit?
there's no problem with the existing code, what I understood is that
they cannot overwrite the ->b_end_io callback in the lowlevel blkdev
layer or the page will be unlocked too early.
Andrea
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-06-21 17:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-21 14:39 correction: fs/buffer.c underlocking async pages Stefan.Bader
2001-06-21 15:08 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-06-21 15:16 ` Chris Mason
2001-06-21 15:24 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-06-21 16:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-06-21 17:12 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-06-21 15:38 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-06-21 16:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-06-21 17:15 ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2001-06-21 17:58 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-06-21 18:20 ` Chris Mason
2001-06-21 18:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-06-22 7:43 Stefan.Bader
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