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[4/5] mm: filemap: pass __GFP_WRITE from grab_cache_page_write_begin()

Message ID 1317367044-475-5-git-send-email-jweiner@redhat.com
State Not Applicable, archived
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Commit Message

Johannes Weiner Sept. 30, 2011, 7:17 a.m. UTC 
Tell the page allocator that pages allocated through
grab_cache_page_write_begin() are expected to become dirty soon.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
---
 mm/filemap.c |    5 ++++-
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

Comments

Michal Hocko Sept. 30, 2011, 2:41 p.m. UTC | #1 
On Fri 30-09-11 09:17:23, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> Tell the page allocator that pages allocated through
> grab_cache_page_write_begin() are expected to become dirty soon.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>

Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>

> ---
>  mm/filemap.c |    5 ++++-
>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
> index 645a080..cf0352d 100644
> --- a/mm/filemap.c
> +++ b/mm/filemap.c
> @@ -2349,8 +2349,11 @@ struct page *grab_cache_page_write_begin(struct address_space *mapping,
>  					pgoff_t index, unsigned flags)
>  {
>  	int status;
> +	gfp_t gfp_mask;
>  	struct page *page;
>  	gfp_t gfp_notmask = 0;
> +
> +	gfp_mask = mapping_gfp_mask(mapping) | __GFP_WRITE;
>  	if (flags & AOP_FLAG_NOFS)
>  		gfp_notmask = __GFP_FS;
>  repeat:
> @@ -2358,7 +2361,7 @@ repeat:
>  	if (page)
>  		goto found;
>  
> -	page = __page_cache_alloc(mapping_gfp_mask(mapping) & ~gfp_notmask);
> +	page = __page_cache_alloc(gfp_mask & ~gfp_notmask);
>  	if (!page)
>  		return NULL;
>  	status = add_to_page_cache_lru(page, mapping, index,
> -- 
> 1.7.6.2
> 
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diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index 645a080..cf0352d 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -2349,8 +2349,11 @@  struct page *grab_cache_page_write_begin(struct address_space *mapping,
 					pgoff_t index, unsigned flags)
 {
 	int status;
+	gfp_t gfp_mask;
 	struct page *page;
 	gfp_t gfp_notmask = 0;
+
+	gfp_mask = mapping_gfp_mask(mapping) | __GFP_WRITE;
 	if (flags & AOP_FLAG_NOFS)
 		gfp_notmask = __GFP_FS;
 repeat:
@@ -2358,7 +2361,7 @@  repeat:
 	if (page)
 		goto found;
 
-	page = __page_cache_alloc(mapping_gfp_mask(mapping) & ~gfp_notmask);
+	page = __page_cache_alloc(gfp_mask & ~gfp_notmask);
 	if (!page)
 		return NULL;
 	status = add_to_page_cache_lru(page, mapping, index,