Re: [RFC] block integrity: Fix write after checksum calculationproblem

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Mon Apr 11 2011 - 14:26:00 EST


On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 01:41:16PM -0400, Chris Mason wrote:
> Actually this isn't a nit. Keeping the page locked closes an important
> hole where it can become writeback again. It might fix the last
> remaining problem.

Note that the generic block_page_mkwrite atually does that. But only
xfs and nilfs2 actually make use of it.

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