Re: [PATCH 0/10] Fix page_mkwrite() for blocksize < pagesize (version 3)

From: Jan Kara
Date: Mon Jun 15 2009 - 14:04:13 EST


>
> patches below are an attempt to solve problems filesystems have with
> page_mkwrite() when blocksize < pagesize (see the changelog of the second patch
> for details).
>
> Could someone please review them so that they can get merged - especially the
> generic VFS/MM part? It fixes observed problems (WARN_ON triggers) for ext4 and
> makes ext2/ext3 behave more nicely (mmapped write getting page fault instead
> of silently discarding data).
>
> The series is against Linus's tree from today. The differences against previous
> version are one bugfix in ext3 delalloc implementation... Please test and review.
> Thanks.
Sorry for the wrong patch numbering [x/11]. There are really just 10
patches in the series. The eleventh one is just a debugging patch I
don't want to merge.

Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
SuSE CR Labs
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