On Fri, 23 Mar 2012, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> --- a/mm/truncate.c~mm-for-fs-add-truncate_pagecache_range-fix
> +++ a/mm/truncate.c
> @@ -639,6 +639,9 @@ int vmtruncate_range(struct inode *inode
> * with on-disk format, and the filesystem would not have to deal with
> * situations such as writepage being called for a page that has already
> * had its underlying blocks deallocated.
> + *
> + * Must be called with inode->i_mapping->i_mutex held.
You catch me offguard: I forget whether that's an absolute requirement or
just commonly the case. What do the other interfaces in truncate.c say ?-)
> + * Takes inode->i_mapping->i_mmap_mutex.
Yes, and inode->i_mapping->tree_lock.
> */
> void truncate_pagecache_range(struct inode *inode, loff_t lstart, loff_t lend)
> {
>
> yes?
Probably!
Hugh
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