Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751801AbaLPQSj (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Dec 2014 11:18:39 -0500 Received: from gum.cmpxchg.org ([85.214.110.215]:54893 "EHLO gum.cmpxchg.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751764AbaLPQSh (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Dec 2014 11:18:37 -0500 From: Johannes Weiner To: Andrew Morton Cc: Tejun Heo , Hugh Dickins , Michel Lespinasse , Jan Kara , "Kirill A. Shutemov" , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [patch 0/3 resend] mm: close race between dirtying and truncation Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 11:18:08 -0500 Message-Id: <1418746691-326-1-git-send-email-hannes@cmpxchg.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.1.3 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Andrew, it looks like these 3 patches fell on the floor. The first one is a bug fix that closes a race condition between truncation and dirtying from do_wp_page(), which can result in a dirty-accounting error. #2 and #3 simplify the code in the area. Please consider them for 3.19. Thanks! include/linux/writeback.h | 1 - mm/memory.c | 54 ++++++++++++++++++--------------------------- mm/page-writeback.c | 43 ++++++++++-------------------------- 3 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 64 deletions(-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/