From: "Darrick J. Wong" Subject: [PATCH 2/7] fs: block_page_mkwrite should wait for writeback to finish Date: Mon, 09 May 2011 16:03:34 -0700 Message-ID: <20110509230334.19566.17603.stgit@elm3c44.beaverton.ibm.com> References: <20110509230318.19566.66202.stgit@elm3c44.beaverton.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 To: Theodore Tso , Jan Kara , Alexander Viro , OGAWA Hirofumi , "Darrick J. Wong" < Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20110509230318.19566.66202.stgit@elm3c44.beaverton.ibm.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org For filesystems such as nilfs2 and xfs that use block_page_mkwrite, modify that function to wait for pending writeback before allowing the page to become writable. This is needed to stabilize pages during writeback for those two filesystems. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong --- fs/buffer.c | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c index a08bb8e..cf9a795 100644 --- a/fs/buffer.c +++ b/fs/buffer.c @@ -2361,6 +2361,7 @@ block_page_mkwrite(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_fault *vmf, if (!ret) ret = block_commit_write(page, 0, end); + wait_on_page_writeback(page); if (unlikely(ret)) { unlock_page(page); if (ret == -ENOMEM) -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org