Re: [PATCH 23/43] CacheFiles: Permit the page lock state to be monitored[ver #46]

From: Rik van Riel
Date: Thu Apr 02 2009 - 14:52:14 EST


David Howells wrote:
Add a function to install a monitor on the page lock waitqueue for a particular
page, thus allowing the page being unlocked to be detected.

This is used by CacheFiles to detect read completion on a page in the backing
filesystem so that it can then copy the data to the waiting netfs page.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
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