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From: Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: hugh@veritas.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, mszeredi@suse.cz,
	pbadari@us.ibm.com, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] holepunch: fix shmem_truncate_range punching too far
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 08:48:33 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87slbn64zi.wl%peterc@chubb.wattle.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1HWsJq-0000vz-00@dorka.pomaz.szeredi.hu>

>>>>> "Miklos" == Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> writes:
>> + punch_hole = 0; } else { 
>> - limit = (end + PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - 1) >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT; 
>> - if (limit > info->next_index) 
>> - limit =  info->next_index; 
>> + if (end + 1 >= inode->i_size) { /* we may free  a little more */

Miklos> Why end + 1?  If the hole end is at 4096 and the file size is
Miklos> 4097 we surely don't want to truncate that second page also?

Why not simplify it to end > inode->i_size?  I think it then makes
more sense.
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-03-29 22:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-28 14:50 Hugh Dickins
2007-03-28 14:51 ` [PATCH 2/4] holepunch: fix shmem_truncate_range punch locking Hugh Dickins
2007-03-29 11:32   ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-03-28 14:52 ` [PATCH 3/4] holepunch: fix disconnected pages after second truncate Hugh Dickins
2007-03-28 14:54 ` [PATCH 4/4] holepunch: fix mmap_sem i_mutex deadlock Hugh Dickins
2007-03-29 10:57 ` [PATCH 1/4] holepunch: fix shmem_truncate_range punching too far Miklos Szeredi
2007-03-29 11:56   ` Hugh Dickins
2007-03-29 12:11     ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-03-29 13:39       ` Hugh Dickins
2007-03-29 14:35         ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-03-29 22:48   ` Peter Chubb [this message]
2007-03-30  4:01     ` Hugh Dickins

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