Re: [PATCH] Re: test10-pre7

From: Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Date: Mon Oct 30 2000 - 17:21:16 EST


On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Alexander Viro wrote:
>
> > I didn't actually miss it, I just looked at the users and decided that it
> > looks like they should never have this issue. But I might have missed
> > something. As far as I can tell, "read_cache_page()" is only used for
> > meta-data like things that cannot be truncated.
>
> invalidate_inode_pages().

Nope. It checks the page count these days, so it would never kill such a
page from under us (we increment the page count while holding the
pagecache lock).

But yes, I'm starting to agree with you more and more..

                Linus

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