Re: [PATCH 2/2] updating ctime and mtime at syncing

From: Miklos Szeredi
Date: Mon Jan 14 2008 - 08:48:02 EST


> > More fun, it would require marking them RO but leaving the dirty bit
> > set, because this ext3 fudge where we confuse the page dirty state - or
> > did that get fixed?
>
> That got fixed by Nick, I think.
>
> The alternative to marking pages RO, is to walk the PTEs in MS_ASYNC,
> note the dirty bit and mark pages clean. But it's possibly even more
^^^^
ptes, I mean
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