>>>>> "bill" == Bill Wendling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hi
Linus, please don't apply.
bill> - The `head = &mapping->pages;' statement is useless inside the
bill> repeat, since head isn't modified inside the loop.
No, but we sleep inside the loop, and while we sleep, we don't have
locked the page cache :((((
bill> - The `curr = curr->next;' statement doesn't need to be executed
bill> if the repeat is taken. I changed the while() into a for() loop
bill> to accomodate this better.
If you think that the for is nicer (I think that the while is easier
to read, but that is question of taste).
Later, Juan.
bill> Share and enjoy!
bill> --
bill> || Bill Wendling [EMAIL PROTECTED]
bill> --- linux-2.4.0-test8/mm/filemap.c Sat Sep 9 02:35:09 2000
bill> +++ linux-2.4.0-test8-new/mm/filemap.c Thu Sep 14 03:14:06 2000
bill> @@ -189,16 +189,14 @@
bill> unsigned long start;
bill> start = (lstart + PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - 1) >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
bill> + head = &mapping->pages;
bill> repeat:
bill> - head = &mapping->pages;
bill> spin_lock(&pagecache_lock);
bill> - curr = head->next;
bill> - while (curr != head) {
bill> + for (curr = head->next; curr != head; curr = curr->next) {
bill> unsigned long offset;
bill> page = list_entry(curr, struct page, list);
bill> - curr = curr->next;
bill> offset = page->index;
bill> /* Is one of the pages to truncate? */
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are different -- Larry McVoy
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