[PATCH 0/3] cachefiles, afs: mm wait fixes

Matthew Wilcox willy at infradead.org
Tue Mar 23 12:08:29 GMT 2021


On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 11:53:22AM +0000, David Howells wrote:
> 
> Here are some patches to fix page waiting-related issues in cachefiles and
> afs[1]:
> 
>  (1) In cachefiles, remove the use of the wait_bit_key struct to access
>      something that's actually in wait_page_key format.  The proper struct
>      is now available in the header, so that should be used instead.
> 
>  (2) Add a proper wait function for waiting killably on the page writeback
>      flag.  This includes a recent bugfix here (presumably commit
>      c2407cf7d22d0c0d94cf20342b3b8f06f1d904e7).
> 
>  (3) In afs, use the function added in (2) rather than using
>      wait_on_page_bit_killable() which doesn't have the aforementioned
>      bugfix.
> 
>      Note that I modified this to work with the upstream code where the
>      page pointer isn't cached in a local variable.

Thanks, the minor modifications to the patches (changelogs, fixes to apply
to upstream) all look good to me.



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