Thread (21 messages) 21 messages, 4 authors, 2021-06-24

Re: [RFC PATCH v4 7/8] ext4: remove bdev_try_to_free_page() callback

From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Date: 2021-06-24 14:56:59
Also in: linux-ext4

On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 07:24:39PM +0800, Zhang Yi wrote:
After we introduce a jbd2 shrinker to release checkpointed buffer's
journal head, we could free buffer without bdev_try_to_free_page()
under memory pressure. So this patch remove the whole
bdev_try_to_free_page() callback directly. It also remove many
use-after-free issues relate to it together.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Applied, thanks.

					- Ted
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