Re: [PATCH] some more fixes for inode.c

From: David Woodhouse
Date: Tue Jan 20 2004 - 08:48:01 EST


On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 08:06 -0500, Rik van Riel wrote:
> The first chunk refiles the inode on the inode_unused_pagecache
> list if needed,

Looks sane.

> but I'm not 100% sure we need that change, since
> maybe only completely unused inodes can end up here. David ?

No, I don't see any reason why that should be the case; you can get
iput() called for an inode which happens to have data in the page cache.
This part of the patch is needed.

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dwmw2

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