> So it's not horribly hard, but it's kind of a separate issue right now. > And while the *generic* page-writeback is easy enough to fix, I worry > about low-level filesystems that have their own "writepages()" > implementation. They could easily get that wrong.
Yeah, nasty. How about doing it in a separate pass, similarly to wait_on_page_writeback()? Just instead of waiting, clean the page tables for writeback pages. > So right now it seems that waiting for writeback to finish is the right > and safe thing to do (and even so, I'm not actually willing to commit my > suggested patch in 2.6.24, I think this needs more thinking about) Sure, I would have though all of this stuff is 2.6.25, but it's your kernel... :) Miklos -- 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/
