Re: shmem: convert to using splice instead of sendfile()

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Wed Jul 11 2007 - 02:20:27 EST


On Tue, Jul 10 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 23:00:59 GMT Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > +static int shmem_readpage(struct file *file, struct page *page)
> > +{
> > + struct inode *inode = page->mapping->host;
> > + int error = shmem_getpage(inode, page->index, &page, SGP_CACHE, NULL);
> > + unlock_page(page);
> > + return error;
> > +}
>
> Worried. shmem_getpage() does
>
> done:
> if (*pagep != filepage) {
> unlock_page(filepage);
> *pagep = filepage;
> }
> return 0;
>
> so we end up unlocking an unlocked page?

It certainly looks like it - Hugh?

--
Jens Axboe

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