On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 22:03 +0530, Suresh Jayaraman wrote: > We seem to ensure that we're holding a page lock in try_to_release_page. > Even if the outstanding commit is complete by the time we are in > nfs_releage_page, page flags should not have been modified, right? No. PG_private may be cleared while another process is holding the page lock (just like PG_writeback may). Once cleared, PG_private cannot be set again without grabbing the page lock. Trond -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html