On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 10:14:24PM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> f2fs is doing
> 
>   page = f2fs_pagecache_get_page(inode->i_mapping, 0, FGP_LOCK|FGP_NOWAIT, 0);
> 
> which calls
> 
>   struct page *pagecache_get_page(inode->i_mapping, 0, FGP_LOCK|FGP_NOWAIT, 
> 0);
> 
> . Then, can't we define
> 
>   static inline struct page *find_trylock_page(struct address_space *mapping,
>                                            pgoff_t offset)
>   {
>       return pagecache_get_page(mapping, offset, FGP_LOCK|FGP_NOWAIT, 0);
>   }
> 
> and replace find_lock_page() with find_trylock_page() ?

This won't work in this case. We need to destinct no-page-in-page-cache
from failed-to-lock-page. We take different routes depending on this.

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov

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