From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail137.messagelabs.com (mail137.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.19]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F29EA6B0012 for ; Fri, 27 May 2011 15:24:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com (d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.106]) by e35.co.us.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id p4RJ7WPd000458 for ; Fri, 27 May 2011 13:07:32 -0600 Received: from d03av01.boulder.ibm.com (d03av01.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.167]) by d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id p4RJQBlv032462 for ; Fri, 27 May 2011 13:26:14 -0600 Received: from d03av01.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av01.boulder.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id p4RJNibE030257 for ; Fri, 27 May 2011 13:23:45 -0600 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] fs: block_page_mkwrite should wait for writeback to finish From: "Darrick J. Wong" Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 12:23:41 -0700 Message-ID: <20110527192341.32105.95751.stgit@elm3c44.beaverton.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <20110527192326.32105.34164.stgit@elm3c44.beaverton.ibm.com> References: <20110527192326.32105.34164.stgit@elm3c44.beaverton.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Christoph Hellwig , Alexander Viro , "Darrick J. Wong" Cc: Jens Axboe , Theodore Tso , "Martin K. Petersen" , Jeff Layton , Dave Chinner , linux-kernel , Dave Hansen , linux-mm@kvack.org, Chris Mason , Joel Becker , linux-scsi , linux-fsdevel , Jan Kara , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Mingming Cao For filesystems such as nilfs2 and xfs that use block_page_mkwrite, modify that function to wait for pending writeback before allowing the page to become writable. This is needed to stabilize pages during writeback for those two filesystems. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong --- fs/buffer.c | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c index 698c6b2..49c9aad 100644 --- a/fs/buffer.c +++ b/fs/buffer.c @@ -2382,6 +2382,7 @@ int __block_page_mkwrite(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_fault *vmf, ret = -EAGAIN; goto out_unlock; } + wait_on_page_writeback(page); return 0; out_unlock: unlock_page(page); -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org