From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 18:34:51 -0300 (BRST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0108201834080.31410-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0108201640010.538-100000@freak.distro.conectiva>
On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> Think about a thread blocked on ->writepage() called from
> page_launder(), which has gotten an additional reference on the
> page.
>
> Any other thread looping on page_launder() will move the given
> page being written to the active list, even if we should just
> drop the page as soon as its writeout is finished.
You're right, we need to add one more check, for PageLocked(page).
If the page is locked, we should not reactivate it...
regards,
Rik
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-20 21:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-20 14:42 [PATCH] Rik van Riel
2001-08-20 19:43 ` [PATCH] Marcelo Tosatti
2001-08-20 21:34 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
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2001-08-15 17:35 [PATCH] Ben LaHaise
2001-08-15 17:40 ` [PATCH] Linus Torvalds
2001-08-15 17:53 ` [PATCH] Ben LaHaise
2001-08-15 18:26 ` [PATCH] Daniel Phillips
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