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From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
To: Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>,
	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 05:01:49 +0100 (BST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0703300458060.32407@blonde.wat.veritas.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87slbn64zi.wl%peterc@chubb.wattle.id.au>

On Fri, 30 Mar 2007, Peter Chubb wrote:
> >> + 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.

One reason would be, that 2 + 1 >= 3, but I don't think 2 > 3 ;)

Hugh

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      reply	other threads:[~2007-03-30  4:01 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
2007-03-30  4:01     ` Hugh Dickins [this message]

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