Re: [patch] pagecache-2.3.9-E8, fixes against pre3-2.3.9

Ingo Molnar (mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu)
Fri, 25 Jun 1999 21:34:22 +0200 (CEST)


On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> o fix for an fs corrution bug in all 2.3.[89]: even if we write to a
> partial buffer, this doesn't mean that we have all buffers
> in the page uptodate. The below check was bogus:
>
> if (!partial)
> SetPageUptodate(page);

no, i cant see any bug here. I think you have misunderstood what this
particular logic in block_write_partial_page() does, it's a little bit
reverse logic, maybe thats confusing.

-- mingo

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