Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm/truncate: don't skip dirty page in folio_unmap_invalidate()

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On 2/18/25 6:23 PM, Jingbo Xu wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2/18/25 8:32 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 08:02:09PM +0800, Jingbo Xu wrote:
>>> ... otherwise this is a behavior change for the previous callers of
>>> invalidate_complete_folio2(), e.g. the page invalidation routine.
>>
>> Hm. Shouldn't the check be moved to caller of the helper in mm/filemap.c?
>>
>> Otherwise we would drop pages without writing them back. And lose user's
>> data.
>>
> 
> IMHO this check is not needed as the following folio_launder() called
> inside folio_unmap_invalidate() will write back the dirty page.
> 
> Hi Jens,
> 
> What do you think about it?

Yep agree on that.

-- 
Jens Axboe





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