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Diffstat (limited to 'mm/truncate.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/truncate.c | 21 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/mm/truncate.c b/mm/truncate.c index 6c79ca4a1ca7..3262740aa059 100644 --- a/mm/truncate.c +++ b/mm/truncate.c @@ -51,15 +51,22 @@ static inline void truncate_partial_page(struct page *page, unsigned partial) do_invalidatepage(page, partial); } +/* + * This cancels just the dirty bit on the kernel page itself, it + * does NOT actually remove dirty bits on any mmap's that may be + * around. It also leaves the page tagged dirty, so any sync + * activity will still find it on the dirty lists, and in particular, + * clear_page_dirty_for_io() will still look at the dirty bits in + * the VM. + * + * Doing this should *normally* only ever be done when a page + * is truncated, and is not actually mapped anywhere at all. However, + * fs/buffer.c does this when it notices that somebody has cleaned + * out all the buffers on a page without actually doing it through + * the VM. Can you say "ext3 is horribly ugly"? Tought you could. + */ void cancel_dirty_page(struct page *page, unsigned int account_size) { - /* If we're cancelling the page, it had better not be mapped any more */ - if (page_mapped(page)) { - static unsigned int warncount; - - WARN_ON(++warncount < 5); - } - if (TestClearPageDirty(page)) { struct address_space *mapping = page->mapping; if (mapping && mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) { |