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[v3,3/3] mm: Wait for writeback when grabbing pages to begin a write

Message ID 20110504174227.GH20579@tux1.beaverton.ibm.com
State Not Applicable, archived
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Darrick J. Wong May 4, 2011, 5:42 p.m. UTC
When grabbing a page for a buffered IO write, the mm should wait for writeback
on the page to complete so that the page does not become writable during the IO
operation.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>
---

 mm/filemap.c |    5 ++++-
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

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Comments

Christoph Hellwig May 4, 2011, 6:48 p.m. UTC | #1
On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 10:42:27AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> When grabbing a page for a buffered IO write, the mm should wait for writeback
> on the page to complete so that the page does not become writable during the IO
> operation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>
> ---
> 
>  mm/filemap.c |    5 ++++-
>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
> index c641edf..c22675f 100644
> --- a/mm/filemap.c
> +++ b/mm/filemap.c
> @@ -2287,8 +2287,10 @@ struct page *grab_cache_page_write_begin(struct address_space *mapping,
>  		gfp_notmask = __GFP_FS;
>  repeat:
>  	page = find_lock_page(mapping, index);
> -	if (page)
> +	if (page) {
> +		wait_on_page_writeback(page);
>  		return page;
> +	}

		goto found;

>  
>  	page = __page_cache_alloc(mapping_gfp_mask(mapping) & ~gfp_notmask);
>  	if (!page)
> @@ -2301,6 +2303,7 @@ repeat:
>  			goto repeat;
>  		return NULL;
>  	}

found:
> +	wait_on_page_writeback(page);
>  	return page;
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(grab_cache_page_write_begin);
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Patch

diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index c641edf..c22675f 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -2287,8 +2287,10 @@  struct page *grab_cache_page_write_begin(struct address_space *mapping,
 		gfp_notmask = __GFP_FS;
 repeat:
 	page = find_lock_page(mapping, index);
-	if (page)
+	if (page) {
+		wait_on_page_writeback(page);
 		return page;
+	}
 
 	page = __page_cache_alloc(mapping_gfp_mask(mapping) & ~gfp_notmask);
 	if (!page)
@@ -2301,6 +2303,7 @@  repeat:
 			goto repeat;
 		return NULL;
 	}
+	wait_on_page_writeback(page);
 	return page;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(grab_cache_page_write_begin);