On 03/14/2013 10:50 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> index 0ff3403..38fdc92 100644
> --- a/mm/filemap.c
> +++ b/mm/filemap.c
> @@ -669,6 +669,7 @@ void __lock_page(struct page *page)
> {
> DEFINE_WAIT_BIT(wait, &page->flags, PG_locked);
>
> + VM_BUG_ON(PageTail(page));
> __wait_on_bit_lock(page_waitqueue(page), &wait, sleep_on_page,
> TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
> }
Could we get a bit more of a description here in a comment or in the
patch summary about this? It makes some sense to me that code shouldn't
be mucking with the tail pages, but I'm curious what your logic is here,
too. I'm sure you've thought about it a lot more than I have.
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