On Fri, 10 Oct 2008, npiggin@xxxxxxx wrote: > In write_cache_pages, if AOP_WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE is returned, the > filesystem is calling on us to drop the page lock and retry, Are you sure? It's not what fs.h says. I think this return value is related to reclaim (and only used by shmfs), and retrying is not the right thing in that case. Miklos -- 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