Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx> writes: > I would be happy if you come up with a quick fix, I'm just trying to > stamp out a few big bugs in mm. However I did prefer my way of moving > all the exapand code into generic_cont_expand, out of prepare_write, and > avoiding holding the target page locked while we're doing all the expand > work (strictly, you might be able to get away with this, but it is > fragile and ugly). > > AFAIKS, the only reason to use prepare_write is to avoid passing the > get_block into generic_cont_expand? IIRC, because generic_cont_expand is designed as really generic. It can also use for non moronic filesystem. In the case of reiserfs, it ->prepare_write might be necessary. -- OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
