On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 04:02:24PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:

Hmm.  Isn't it permitted to at least read from an fs while holding the
page lock?  I thought that the page lock was held for the entire
duration of a read and at the beginning of writeback.

I can push this down to the ->writepage implementations or to the
clear_page_dirty_for_io callers, but that will result in a bigger
patch.

Besides the current way that seems to be the only reasonable place to
do it.  Pushing it into ->writepage also has the benefit that
filesystems could piggy back the ctime update onto the transaction that
updates the extent tree.

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