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From: Linus Torvalds
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix bad data from non-direct-io read after direct-io write
Date: Friday, October 26, 2007 - 3:42 pm

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Zach Brown wrote:

How about not testing at all? Which was what the old code did.

Just do the invalidate unconditionally for any writes, and screw the end 
result of the invalidate, since we cannot afford to overwrite the previous 
return value anyway in any realistic scenario?

		Linus
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[PATCH] Fix bad data from non-direct-io read after direct- ..., Karl Schendel, (Fri Oct 26, 2:12 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Fix bad data from non-direct-io read after dir ..., Linus Torvalds, (Fri Oct 26, 2:34 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Fix bad data from non-direct-io read after dir ..., Karl Schendel, (Fri Oct 26, 3:10 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Fix bad data from non-direct-io read after dir ..., Zach Brown, (Fri Oct 26, 3:30 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Fix bad data from non-direct-io read after dir ..., Karl Schendel, (Fri Oct 26, 3:41 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Fix bad data from non-direct-io read after dir ..., Linus Torvalds, (Fri Oct 26, 3:42 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Fix bad data from non-direct-io read after dir ..., Zach Brown, (Fri Oct 26, 3:54 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Fix bad data from non-direct-io read after dir ..., Linus Torvalds, (Fri Oct 26, 4:14 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Fix bad data from non-direct-io read after dir ..., Karl Schendel, (Fri Oct 26, 4:28 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Fix bad data from non-direct-io read after dir ..., Zach Brown, (Fri Oct 26, 4:38 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Fix bad data from non-direct-io read after dir ..., Zach Brown, (Tue Oct 30, 11:45 am)
Re: [PATCH] Fix bad data from non-direct-io read after dir ..., Linus Torvalds, (Tue Oct 30, 12:11 pm)