On Thu, 18 May 2000, Trond Myklebust wrote:
>
> The 'read_cache_page()' interface at the moment has a problem: If the
> page filler routine fails, then despite an ERR_PTR() being returned,
> the non-uptodate page is left in the page cache. Subsequent calls to
> read_cache_page() will then fail to retry to fill the page, because
> the current implementation is unaware of the PG_uptodate flag.
That's a bug.
I'd rather not introduce a new "fixed" version of read_cache_page() with a
new name, I'd _much_ rather just have a bug-fix to read_cache_page() that
realizes that just finding a page is not sufficient: even if the page is
found it must be up-to-date as well or the read needs to be re-tried.
Al, mind looking at this too (and yes, I'll get to the dentry stuff, I'm
just back from canada and trying to catch up with email. At least I
finally have DSL again ;)
Linus
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