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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com>,
	Vasily Averin <vvs@virtuozzo.com>,
	Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>,
	Konstantin Khorenko <khorenko@virtuozzo.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: cleancache: fix corruption on missed inode invalidation
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2018 14:29:59 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181115142959.89ecdb6b4f24a1427062d861@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181112113153.GC7175@quack2.suse.cz>

On Mon, 12 Nov 2018 12:31:53 +0100 Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> wrote:

> >  mm/truncate.c | 4 ++--
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> The patch looks good but can you add a short comment before the
> truncate_inode_pages() call explaining why it needs to be called always?
> Something like:
> 
> 	 /*
> 	  * Cleancache needs notification even if there are no pages or
> 	  * shadow entries...
> 	  */

--- a/mm/truncate.c~mm-cleancache-fix-corruption-on-missed-inode-invalidation-fix
+++ a/mm/truncate.c
@@ -519,6 +519,10 @@ void truncate_inode_pages_final(struct a
 		xa_unlock_irq(&mapping->i_pages);
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * Cleancache needs notification even if there are no pages or shadow
+	 * entries.
+	 */
 	truncate_inode_pages(mapping, 0);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(truncate_inode_pages_final);
_


  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-11-15 22:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-12  9:57 [PATCH] mm: cleancache: fix corruption on missed inode invalidation Pavel Tikhomirov
2018-11-12 11:31 ` Jan Kara
2018-11-12 11:40   ` Andrey Ryabinin
2018-11-12 11:54     ` Jan Kara
2018-11-12 12:00   ` [PATCH v2] " Pavel Tikhomirov
2018-11-15 22:29   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2018-11-15 22:31 ` [PATCH] " Andrew Morton
2018-11-16  7:55   ` Vasily Averin

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