Re: [patch] truncate_inode_pages

From: Daniel Phillips (phillips@bonn-fries.net)
Date: Mon Jun 11 2001 - 08:13:13 EST

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On Monday 11 June 2001 14:45, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > On Sunday 10 June 2001 03:31, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > > > This is easy, just set the list head to the page about to be
> > > > truncated.
> > >
> > > Works for me.
> >
> > It looks good, but it's black magic
>
> No, it's wrong. I'm getting BUG()s in clear_inode():
> [...]
> The lists are mangled.

curr is being advanced in the wrong place.

/me makes note to self: never resist the temptation to clean things up the
rest of the way

I'll actually apply the patch and try it this time ;-)

--
Daniel
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