Patch "ext4: convert write_begin methods to stable_page_writes semantics" has been added to the 3.10-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    ext4: convert write_begin methods to stable_page_writes semantics

to the 3.10-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     ext4-convert-write_begin-methods-to-stable_page_writes-semantics.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 7afe5aa59ed3da7b6161617e7f157c7c680dc41e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 14:30:47 -0400
Subject: ext4: convert write_begin methods to stable_page_writes semantics

From: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>

commit 7afe5aa59ed3da7b6161617e7f157c7c680dc41e upstream.

Use wait_for_stable_page() instead of wait_on_page_writeback()

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/ext4/inode.c |    5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -1032,7 +1032,8 @@ retry_journal:
 		ext4_journal_stop(handle);
 		goto retry_grab;
 	}
-	wait_on_page_writeback(page);
+	/* In case writeback began while the page was unlocked */
+	wait_for_stable_page(page);
 
 	if (ext4_should_dioread_nolock(inode))
 		ret = __block_write_begin(page, pos, len, ext4_get_block_write);
@@ -2729,7 +2730,7 @@ retry_journal:
 		goto retry_grab;
 	}
 	/* In case writeback began while the page was unlocked */
-	wait_on_page_writeback(page);
+	wait_for_stable_page(page);
 
 	ret = __block_write_begin(page, pos, len, ext4_da_get_block_prep);
 	if (ret < 0) {


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dmonakhov@openvz.org are

queue-3.10/ext4-convert-write_begin-methods-to-stable_page_writes-semantics.patch