Re: [Patch] add AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE, prepend AOP_ toWRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE

[Andrew Morton]

Zach Brown <zach.brown@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> readpage(), prepare_write(), and commit_write() callers are updated to
>  understand the special return code AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE in the style of
>  writepage() and WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE.  AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE tells the caller that
>  the callee has unlocked the page and that the operation should be tried again
>  with a new page.  OCFS2 uses this to detect and work around a lock inversion in
>  its aop methods.  There should be no change in behaviour for methods that don't
>  return AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE.
> 
>  WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE is also prepended with AOP_ for consistency and they are
>  made enums so that kerneldoc can be used to document their semantics.

Looks sane to me.   Can you carry this in the ocfs2 tree?
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