From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 09:22:22 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH 1 of 2] block_page_mkwrite() Implementation V2 Message-ID: <20070319092222.GA1720@infradead.org> References: <20070318233008.GA32597093@melbourne.sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070318233008.GA32597093@melbourne.sgi.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: David Chinner Cc: lkml , linux-mm , linux-fsdevel , nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au List-ID: On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 10:30:08AM +1100, David Chinner wrote: > > Generic page_mkwrite functionality. > > Filesystems that make use of the VM ->page_mkwrite() callout will generally use > the same core code to implement it. There are several tricky truncate-related > issues that we need to deal with here as we cannot take the i_mutex as we > normally would for these paths. These issues are not documented anywhere yet > so block_page_mkwrite() seems like the best place to start. This will need some updates when ->fault replaces ->page_mkwrite. Nich, what's the plan for merging ->fault? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org