On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 04:02:24PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > Hmm. Isn't it permitted to at least read from an fs while holding the > page lock? I thought that the page lock was held for the entire > duration of a read and at the beginning of writeback. > > I can push this down to the ->writepage implementations or to the > clear_page_dirty_for_io callers, but that will result in a bigger > patch. Besides the current way that seems to be the only reasonable place to do it. Pushing it into ->writepage also has the benefit that filesystems could piggy back the ctime update onto the transaction that updates the extent tree. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
