Re: [PATCH 6/6] ubifs: Wait for page writeback to provide stablepages

[Boaz Harrosh]

On 02/21/2013 05:48 AM, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 01:43:12PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 17:13:16 -0800
>> "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> When stable pages are required, we have to wait if the page is just
>>> going to disk and we want to modify it. Add proper callback to
>>> ubifs_vm_page_mkwrite().
>>>
>>> CC: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> CC: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> CC: linux-mtd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
>>> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
>>> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> A couple of these patches had this From:Jan strangely embedded in the
>> signoff area.  I have assumed that they were indeed authored by Jan.
>>
>> Please note that authorship is indicated by putting the From: line
>> right at the start of the chagnelog.
>>
>>
>> I grabbed the patches.  They should appear in linux-next tomorrow if I
>> can get the current pooppile to build.
> 
> Well... these patches have been banging around in -next for a month or so now.
> As far as I know there haven't been any complaints.  Can we push these for 3.9?
> 

Yes, please I'm waiting for these patches as well. Lets push them this merge
window. I was sure they would get in at 3.8, but they didn't. What's the delay?

[Using this I can fix a theoretical raid corruption in exofs local access, which
 no one really cared because exofs is always accessed via pnfs, which does not
 have that bug]

Thanks
Boaz

> --D
> 

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