Re: invalidate_inode_pages in 2.5.32/3

From: Trond Myklebust (trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no)
Date: Thu Sep 05 2002 - 15:27:04 EST


>>>>> " " == Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au> writes:

> It's a bit worrisome if NFS is dependent upon successful
> pagecache takedown in invalidate_inode_pages.

Why? We don't use all that buffer crap, so in principle
invalidate_inode_page() is only supposed to fail for us if

  - page is locked (i.e. new read in progress or something like that)
  - page is refcounted (by something like mmap()).

neither of which should be the case here.

Cheers,
  Trond
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