The patch titled Reiser4: remove simple_prepare_write usage has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is reiser4-remove-simple_prepare_write-usage.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Reiser4: remove simple_prepare_write usage From: Laurent Riffard <laurent.riffard@xxxxxxx> Reiser4 can't be built as a module when EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL is not set. It's broken because reiser4_write_extent is calling simple_prepare_write() and commit 4e02ed4b4a2fae34aae766a5bb93ae235f60adb8 scheduled it for unexporting. Signed-off-by: Laurent Riffard <laurent.riffard@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Edward Shishkin <edward.shishkin@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/reiser4/plugin/item/extent_file_ops.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/reiser4/plugin/item/extent_file_ops.c~reiser4-remove-simple_prepare_write-usage fs/reiser4/plugin/item/extent_file_ops.c --- a/fs/reiser4/plugin/item/extent_file_ops.c~reiser4-remove-simple_prepare_write-usage +++ a/fs/reiser4/plugin/item/extent_file_ops.c @@ -1059,8 +1059,9 @@ ssize_t reiser4_write_extent(struct file lock_page(page); if (!PageUptodate(page) && to_page != PAGE_CACHE_SIZE) - simple_prepare_write(file, page, page_off, - page_off + to_page); + zero_user_segments(page, 0, page_off, + page_off + to_page, + PAGE_CACHE_SIZE); written = filemap_copy_from_user(page, page_off, buf, to_page); if (unlikely(written != to_page)) { _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from laurent.riffard@xxxxxxx are reiser4.patch reiser4-remove-simple_prepare_write-usage.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html