Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would be happy if you come up with a quick fix, I'm just trying to > stamp out a few big bugs in mm. However I did prefer my way of moving > all the exapand code into generic_cont_expand, out of prepare_write, and > avoiding holding the target page locked while we're doing all the expand > work (strictly, you might be able to get away with this, but it is > fragile and ugly). > > AFAIKS, the only reason to use prepare_write is to avoid passing the > get_block into generic_cont_expand?
IIRC, because generic_cont_expand is designed as really generic. It can also use for non moronic filesystem. In the case of reiserfs, it ->prepare_write might be necessary. -- OGAWA Hirofumi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
