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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: David Chow <davidchow@shaolinmicro.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: dirty pages path in kernel
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 11:13:53 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030128111353.3a104e3d.akpm@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E36BD6B.6080000@shaolinmicro.com>

David Chow <davidchow@shaolinmicro.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> 
> If I do the following to an inode mapping page .
> 
> 1. Generate a "struct page" from read_cache_page()
> 2. kmap() the page, do some memset() (Dirty the page)
> 3. kunmap() and page_cache_release() the page.
> 

The VFS does not know that the page has changed.

You should do:

	lock_page(page);
	memset()
	set_page_dirty(page);
	unlock_page(page);

the page will be written to disk on the next kupdate cycle.
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  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-28 19:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-28 17:27 David Chow
2003-01-28 19:13 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2003-01-28 21:08   ` Andrew Morton
2003-01-29 10:51     ` Nikita Danilov
2003-02-01  9:18       ` David Chow

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