On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 16:02 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > What is "the problem"? Can we get "the problem"'s description included > in the changelog? > > The patch is fairly ugly, somewhat costly and makes things (even) more > complex. Sigh. The problem is that currently, pages can be marked as dirty after they have been written out, or even during writeout. IOW: the filesystem and the mm no longer agree on the state of the page, which again triggers issues such as http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12913 Trond -- 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
