aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/include/linux/user.h
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorDavid Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>2007-02-12 03:51:41 -0500
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-02-12 12:48:27 -0500
commit33a266dda9fbbe72dd978a451a8ee33c59da5e9c (patch)
tree7e3fa4100e436f12b4c0ed562dd1f6dc9ec84fd4 /include/linux/user.h
parent42da9cbd3eedde33a42acc2cb06f454814cf5de0 (diff)
[PATCH] Make BH_Unwritten a first class bufferhead flag V2
Currently, XFS uses BH_PrivateStart for flagging unwritten extent state in a bufferhead. Recently, I found the long standing mmap/unwritten extent conversion bug, and it was to do with partial page invalidation not clearing the unwritten flag from bufferheads attached to the page but beyond EOF. See here for a full explaination: http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2006-12/msg00196.html The solution I have checked into the XFS dev tree involves duplicating code from block_invalidatepage to clear the unwritten flag from the bufferhead(s), and then calling block_invalidatepage() to do the rest. Christoph suggested that this would be better solved by pushing the unwritten flag into the common buffer head flags and just adding the call to discard_buffer(): http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2006-12/msg00239.html The following patch makes BH_Unwritten a first class citizen. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/user.h')
0 files changed, 0 insertions, 0 deletions