From: Xiubo Li <xiubli@redhat.com>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>, Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Cc: idryomov@gmail.com, vshankar@redhat.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org,
willy@infradead.org, keescook@chromium.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-cachefs@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] netfs: release the folio lock and put the folio before retrying
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2022 08:58:40 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8ce8c30f-8a33-87e7-1bdc-b73d5b933c85@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2187946.1657027284@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
On 7/5/22 9:21 PM, David Howells wrote:
> Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> wrote:
>
>> I don't know here... I think it might be better to just expect that when
>> this function returns an error that the folio has already been unlocked.
>> Doing it this way will mean that you will lock and unlock the folio a
>> second time for no reason.
> I seem to remember there was some reason you wanted the folio unlocking and
> putting. I guess you need to drop the ref to flush it.
>
> Would it make sense for ->check_write_begin() to be passed a "struct folio
> **folio" rather than "struct folio *folio" and then the filesystem can clear
> *folio if it disposes of the page?
Yeah, this also sounds good to me.
-- Xiubo
> David
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-07-06 0:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-07-01 2:29 [PATCH 0/2] netfs, ceph: fix the crash when unlocking the folio xiubli
2022-07-01 2:29 ` [PATCH 1/2] netfs: release the folio lock and put the folio before retrying xiubli
2022-07-01 10:38 ` Jeff Layton
2022-07-04 1:13 ` Xiubo Li
2022-07-04 2:10 ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-07-04 2:40 ` Xiubo Li
2022-07-04 6:58 ` Xiubo Li
2022-07-05 13:21 ` David Howells
2022-07-05 13:41 ` Jeff Layton
2022-07-06 0:58 ` Xiubo Li [this message]
2022-07-01 2:29 ` [PATCH 2/2] ceph: do not release the folio lock in kceph xiubli
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