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Re: [PATCH] latest radix-tree pagecache patch and 2.4.19-pre3-ac6
On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 07:43:18PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
> [ ... my comments ... ]
>
> I think I have found at least once obvious bug:
>
> a) this cannot actually compile, pagecache_lock is gone..
> b) find_get_page already does locking internally AND also
> grabs a reference to the page.
>
> This should probably be just a radix_tree_lookup()
>
> @@ -1064,7 +999,7 @@
> spin_lock(&pagemap_lru_lock);
> while (--index >= start) {
> spin_lock(&pagecache_lock);
> - page = __find_page(mapping, index);
> + page = find_get_page(mapping, index);
> spin_unlock(&pagecache_lock);
> if (!page || !PageActive(page))
> break;
>
The file does compile, and my kernel running now does have
the changes I've made. I must be picking up the variable
from somewhere else, and I can't say where that is right
now. Hmmmm ....
Thanks for looking over the patch. I'll make the change
and try things out. Thanks again for working on the radix-tree
patches!
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