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Clean up and make try_to_free_buffers() not race with dirty pages
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This is preparatory work in our continuing saga on some hard-to-trigger
file corruption with shared writable mmap() after the dirty page
tracking changes (commit d08b385 etc)
were merged.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Linus Torvalds committed Dec 21, 2006
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18 changes: 1 addition & 17 deletions fs/buffer.c
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Expand Up @@ -2834,7 +2834,7 @@ int try_to_free_buffers(struct page *page)
int ret = 0;

BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));
if (PageWriteback(page))
if (PageDirty(page) || PageWriteback(page))
return 0;

if (mapping == NULL) { /* can this still happen? */
Expand All @@ -2845,22 +2845,6 @@ int try_to_free_buffers(struct page *page)
spin_lock(&mapping->private_lock);
ret = drop_buffers(page, &buffers_to_free);
spin_unlock(&mapping->private_lock);
if (ret) {
/*
* If the filesystem writes its buffers by hand (eg ext3)
* then we can have clean buffers against a dirty page. We
* clean the page here; otherwise later reattachment of buffers
* could encounter a non-uptodate page, which is unresolvable.
* This only applies in the rare case where try_to_free_buffers
* succeeds but the page is not freed.
*
* Also, during truncate, discard_buffer will have marked all
* the page's buffers clean. We discover that here and clean
* the page also.
*/
if (test_clear_page_dirty(page))
task_io_account_cancelled_write(PAGE_CACHE_SIZE);
}
out:
if (buffers_to_free) {
struct buffer_head *bh = buffers_to_free;
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