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1 files changed, 33 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index 93595c327bbd..d5fdae2eb183 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -123,8 +123,7 @@ void remove_from_page_cache(struct page *page)
{
struct address_space *mapping = page->mapping;
- if (unlikely(!PageLocked(page)))
- PAGE_BUG(page);
+ BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));
write_lock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
__remove_from_page_cache(page);
@@ -139,7 +138,25 @@ static int sync_page(void *word)
page = container_of((page_flags_t *)word, struct page, flags);
/*
- * FIXME, fercrissake. What is this barrier here for?
+ * page_mapping() is being called without PG_locked held.
+ * Some knowledge of the state and use of the page is used to
+ * reduce the requirements down to a memory barrier.
+ * The danger here is of a stale page_mapping() return value
+ * indicating a struct address_space different from the one it's
+ * associated with when it is associated with one.
+ * After smp_mb(), it's either the correct page_mapping() for
+ * the page, or an old page_mapping() and the page's own
+ * page_mapping() has gone NULL.
+ * The ->sync_page() address_space operation must tolerate
+ * page_mapping() going NULL. By an amazing coincidence,
+ * this comes about because none of the users of the page
+ * in the ->sync_page() methods make essential use of the
+ * page_mapping(), merely passing the page down to the backing
+ * device's unplug functions when it's non-NULL, which in turn
+ * ignore it for all cases but swap, where only page->private is
+ * of interest. When page_mapping() does go NULL, the entire
+ * call stack gracefully ignores the page and returns.
+ * -- wli
*/
smp_mb();
mapping = page_mapping(page);
@@ -152,9 +169,10 @@ static int sync_page(void *word)
/**
* filemap_fdatawrite_range - start writeback against all of a mapping's
* dirty pages that lie within the byte offsets <start, end>
- * @mapping: address space structure to write
- * @start: offset in bytes where the range starts
- * @end : offset in bytes where the range ends
+ * @mapping: address space structure to write
+ * @start: offset in bytes where the range starts
+ * @end: offset in bytes where the range ends
+ * @sync_mode: enable synchronous operation
*
* If sync_mode is WB_SYNC_ALL then this is a "data integrity" operation, as
* opposed to a regular memory * cleansing writeback. The difference between
@@ -518,8 +536,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(find_trylock_page);
/**
* find_lock_page - locate, pin and lock a pagecache page
*
- * @mapping - the address_space to search
- * @offset - the page index
+ * @mapping: the address_space to search
+ * @offset: the page index
*
* Locates the desired pagecache page, locks it, increments its reference
* count and returns its address.
@@ -558,9 +576,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(find_lock_page);
/**
* find_or_create_page - locate or add a pagecache page
*
- * @mapping - the page's address_space
- * @index - the page's index into the mapping
- * @gfp_mask - page allocation mode
+ * @mapping: the page's address_space
+ * @index: the page's index into the mapping
+ * @gfp_mask: page allocation mode
*
* Locates a page in the pagecache. If the page is not present, a new page
* is allocated using @gfp_mask and is added to the pagecache and to the VM's
@@ -1949,7 +1967,7 @@ generic_file_buffered_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
buf = iov->iov_base + written;
else {
filemap_set_next_iovec(&cur_iov, &iov_base, written);
- buf = iov->iov_base + iov_base;
+ buf = cur_iov->iov_base + iov_base;
}
do {
@@ -2007,9 +2025,11 @@ generic_file_buffered_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
count -= status;
pos += status;
buf += status;
- if (unlikely(nr_segs > 1))
+ if (unlikely(nr_segs > 1)) {
filemap_set_next_iovec(&cur_iov,
&iov_base, status);
+ buf = cur_iov->iov_base + iov_base;
+ }
}
}
if (unlikely(copied != bytes))