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r: 127963
b: refs/heads/master
c: c39a7f8
h: refs/heads/master
i:
  127961: f05f327
  127959: 8037cbd
v: v3

[refs]

@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 6b082b531228c43d454c082fc0f969da1695b060
+refs/heads/master: c39a7f84d7845aa95d1c7c168f38215aedcc13c2

trunk/fs/ext4/super.c

@@ -907,6 +907,25 @@ static struct dentry *ext4_fh_to_parent(struct super_block *sb, struct fid *fid,
 				    ext4_nfs_get_inode);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Try to release metadata pages (indirect blocks, directories) which are
+ * mapped via the block device.  Since these pages could have journal heads
+ * which would prevent try_to_free_buffers() from freeing them, we must use
+ * jbd2 layer's try_to_free_buffers() function to release them.
+ */
+static int bdev_try_to_free_page(struct super_block *sb, struct page *page, gfp_t wait)
+{
+	journal_t *journal = EXT4_SB(sb)->s_journal;
+
+	WARN_ON(PageChecked(page));
+	if (!page_has_buffers(page))
+		return 0;
+	if (journal)
+		return jbd2_journal_try_to_free_buffers(journal, page,
+							wait & ~__GFP_WAIT);
+	return try_to_free_buffers(page);
+}
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_QUOTA
 #define QTYPE2NAME(t) ((t) == USRQUOTA ? "user" : "group")
 #define QTYPE2MOPT(on, t) ((t) == USRQUOTA?((on)##USRJQUOTA):((on)##GRPJQUOTA))
@@ -971,6 +990,7 @@ static const struct super_operations ext4_sops = {
 	.quota_read	= ext4_quota_read,
 	.quota_write	= ext4_quota_write,
 #endif
+	.bdev_try_to_free_page = bdev_try_to_free_page,
 };
 
 static const struct export_operations ext4_export_ops = {