On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 16:57 +0100, Mark Williamson wrote:
> Hi Trond,
>
> Thanks for your reply!
>
> > > > 4) Check that writepages() does not kick in earlier and does not do
> > > > the job instead.
> > >
> > > I'm not implementing a writepages() method either, at the moment.
> >
> > In that case have you remembered to set 'generic_writepages' as your
> > default writepages callback?
>
> I tried that, and thought it fixed the problem but have been unable to
> reproduce the correct behaviour.
>
> I've now hooked in a custom writepages() implementation that just printks and
> returns - it doesn't appear to get called. I know I'm dirtying the page on
> commit_write, and sync is writing out the inode.
What do you mean by "writing out the inode" ? Does your writepage() gets
called or not ?
And also, you mentioned that you don't have a backing block-device.
What is the mapping->backing_dev_info set to ?
For example, sync_sb_inodes() skips the inodes and superblock
if (!bdi_cap_writeback_dirty(bdi)) {
...
/*
* Dirty memory-backed inode against a filesystem other
* than the kernel-internal bdev filesystem. Skip the
* entire superblock.
*/
break;
}
Thanks,
Badari
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