Re: [replace-alexv-buffer.c-patch] Re: [PATCH] Several bad bugs in

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@e-mind.com)
Fri, 23 Apr 1999 15:03:32 +0200 (CEST)


On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Alexander Viro wrote:

> What the... Wait a bit. How and when can ->b_list become *not*
>corrsponding to the list where the buffer sits, anyway?

Think if nextbh is a clean buffer not belonging to the dev that is
changing blocksize.

Think if while we sleep in wait_on_buffer(bh), bhnext get marked dirty by
another fs and so if it gets refiled to the BH_DIRTY lru list.

Andrea Arcangeli

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