On Fri 23-03-12 15:45:02, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 5 Mar 2012 17:00:59 +0100 > Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > --- a/mm/filemap.c > > +++ b/mm/filemap.c > > @@ -1759,8 +1759,28 @@ page_not_uptodate: > > } > > EXPORT_SYMBOL(filemap_fault); > > > > +int filemap_page_mkwrite(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_fault *vmf) > > +{ > > + struct page *page = vmf->page; > > + struct inode *inode = vma->vm_file->f_path.dentry->d_inode; > > + int ret = VM_FAULT_LOCKED; > > + > > + file_update_time(vma->vm_file); > > + lock_page(page); > > + if ((page->mapping != inode->i_mapping) || > > + (page_offset(page) > i_size_read(inode))) { > > Would benefit from a comment explaining how the page can come to be > outside i_size, and why we fail in that case. > > I don't think i_mutex is held here, so this test is rather meaningless > and racy anyway? i_size test is racy if that's what you mean by "this test". Just I did the test this way because it's like this in other places and I figured truncate_pagecache() can take relatively long time so the test has some effect. But if you think it's not worth it, I can remove it. Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR -- 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