diff -Naur ../../linux-2.4.2/linux/include/linux/pagemap.h ./include/linux/pagemap.h
--- ../../linux-2.4.2/linux/include/linux/pagemap.h Wed Feb 21 16:10:01 2001
+++ ./include/linux/pagemap.h Wed Feb 28 14:10:48 2001
@@ -71,6 +71,8 @@
unsigned long offset, struct page **hash);
extern struct page * __find_lock_page (struct address_space * mapping,
unsigned long index, struct page **hash);
+extern struct page * find_get_page_simple (struct address_space * mapping,
+ unsigned long index);
extern void lock_page(struct page *page);
#define find_lock_page(mapping, index) \
__find_lock_page(mapping, index, page_hash(mapping, index))
diff -Naur ../../linux-2.4.2/linux/kernel/ksyms.c ./kernel/ksyms.c
--- ../../linux-2.4.2/linux/kernel/ksyms.c Fri Feb 9 11:29:44 2001
+++ ./kernel/ksyms.c Wed Feb 28 14:09:51 2001
@@ -241,6 +241,7 @@
EXPORT_SYMBOL(poll_freewait);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(ROOT_DEV);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__find_lock_page);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(find_get_page_simple);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(grab_cache_page);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(read_cache_page);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(vfs_readlink);
diff -Naur ../../linux-2.4.2/linux/mm/filemap.c ./mm/filemap.c
--- ../../linux-2.4.2/linux/mm/filemap.c Fri Feb 16 16:06:17 2001
+++ ./mm/filemap.c Wed Feb 28 14:22:09 2001
@@ -285,6 +285,34 @@
spin_unlock(&pagecache_lock);
}
+/*
+ * This function is pretty much like __find_page_nolock(), but it only
+ * requires 2 arguments and doesn't mark the page as touched, making it
+ * ideal for ->writepage() clustering and other places where you don't
+ * want to mark the page referenced.
+ *
+ * The caller needs to hold the pagecache_lock.
+ */
+struct page * __find_page_simple(struct address_space *mapping, unsigned long index)
+{
+ struct page * page = *page_hash(mapping, index);
+ goto inside;
+
+ for (;;) {
+ page = page->next_hash;
+inside:
+ if (!page)
+ goto not_found;
+ if (page->mapping != mapping)
+ continue;
+ if (page->index == index)
+ break;
+ }
+
+not_found:
+ return page;
+}
+
static inline struct page * __find_page_nolock(struct address_space *mapping, unsigned long offset, struct page *page)
{
goto inside;
@@ -300,13 +328,14 @@
break;
}
/*
- * Touching the page may move it to the active list.
- * If we end up with too few inactive pages, we wake
- * up kswapd.
+ * Mark the page referenced, moving inactive pages to the
+ * active list.
*/
- age_page_up(page);
- if (inactive_shortage() > inactive_target / 2 && free_shortage())
- wakeup_kswapd();
+ if (!PageActive(page))
+ activate_page(page);
+ else
+ SetPageReferenced(page);
+
not_found:
return page;
}
@@ -679,6 +708,22 @@
}
/*
+ * Similar to find_get_page but with no VM side-effects such as aging.
+ */
+struct page * find_get_page_simple(struct address_space *mapping,
+ unsigned long index)
+{
+ struct page *page;
+
+ spin_lock(&pagecache_lock);
+ page = __find_page_simple(mapping, index);
+ if (page)
+ page_cache_get(page);
+ spin_unlock(&pagecache_lock);
+ return page;
+}
+
+/*
* Get the lock to a page atomically.
*/
struct page * __find_lock_page (struct address_space *mapping,
@@ -734,7 +779,6 @@
{
struct inode *inode = file->f_dentry->d_inode;
struct address_space *mapping = inode->i_mapping;
- struct page **hash;
struct page *page;
unsigned long start;
@@ -755,8 +799,7 @@
*/
spin_lock(&pagecache_lock);
while (--index >= start) {
- hash = page_hash(mapping, index);
- page = __find_page_nolock(mapping, index, *hash);
+ page = __find_page_simple(mapping, index);
if (!page)
break;
deactivate_page(page);