From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> Subject: Re: correction: fs/buffer.c underlocking async pages Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 11:49:20 -0700 (PDT) Cc: <Stefan.Bader@de.ibm.com>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 09:56:04AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > What's the problem with the existing code, and why do people want to add a > > (unnecessary) new bit? > > there's no problem with the existing code, what I understood is that > they cannot overwrite the ->b_end_io callback in the lowlevel blkdev > layer or the page will be unlocked too early. Oh, fair enough. I don't have any objections to the patch in that case, although it does end up being a 2.5.x issue as far as I'm concerned (and don't worry, 2.5.x looks like it will open in a week or two, so we're not talking about long timeframes). Obviously 2.5.x code may be back-ported to 2.4.x later. That will be up to Alan. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/