Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932448Ab1EIXDk (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 May 2011 19:03:40 -0400 Received: from e33.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.151]:40861 "EHLO e33.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753308Ab1EIXDi (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 May 2011 19:03:38 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 1/7] mm: Wait for writeback when grabbing pages to begin a write To: Theodore Tso , Jan Kara , Alexander Viro , OGAWA Hirofumi , "Darrick J. Wong" From: "Darrick J. Wong" Cc: Jens Axboe , "Martin K. Petersen" , Jeff Layton , Dave Chinner , linux-kernel , Dave Hansen , Christoph Hellwig , linux-mm@kvack.org, Chris Mason , Joel Becker , linux-scsi , linux-fsdevel , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Mingming Cao Date: Mon, 09 May 2011 16:03:26 -0700 Message-ID: <20110509230326.19566.16027.stgit@elm3c44.beaverton.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <20110509230318.19566.66202.stgit@elm3c44.beaverton.ibm.com> References: <20110509230318.19566.66202.stgit@elm3c44.beaverton.ibm.com> User-Agent: StGit/0.15 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1186 Lines: 39 When grabbing a page for a buffered IO write, the mm should wait for writeback on the page to complete so that the page does not become writable during the IO operation. This change is needed to provide page stability during writes for all filesystems. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong --- mm/filemap.c | 4 +++- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c index c641edf..fd0e7f2 100644 --- a/mm/filemap.c +++ b/mm/filemap.c @@ -2288,7 +2288,7 @@ struct page *grab_cache_page_write_begin(struct address_space *mapping, repeat: page = find_lock_page(mapping, index); if (page) - return page; + goto found; page = __page_cache_alloc(mapping_gfp_mask(mapping) & ~gfp_notmask); if (!page) @@ -2301,6 +2301,8 @@ repeat: goto repeat; return NULL; } +found: + wait_on_page_writeback(page); return page; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(grab_cache_page_write_begin); -- 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/