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authorDarrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>2011-05-27 15:23:34 -0400
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2011-05-28 01:03:21 -0400
commit3d08bcc887a1c8d12be8d81f747ffa2e8a44b67b (patch)
tree258f4e3d384e451c921c5e0c503fd368f236a20a /mm
parent98702467f829177b3993f17da9fe5c202d160e5e (diff)
mm: Wait for writeback when grabbing pages to begin a write
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. This change is needed to provide page stability during writes for all filesystems. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/filemap.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index bcdc393b6580..dac95a24deac 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -2327,7 +2327,7 @@ struct page *grab_cache_page_write_begin(struct address_space *mapping,
2327repeat: 2327repeat:
2328 page = find_lock_page(mapping, index); 2328 page = find_lock_page(mapping, index);
2329 if (page) 2329 if (page)
2330 return page; 2330 goto found;
2331 2331
2332 page = __page_cache_alloc(mapping_gfp_mask(mapping) & ~gfp_notmask); 2332 page = __page_cache_alloc(mapping_gfp_mask(mapping) & ~gfp_notmask);
2333 if (!page) 2333 if (!page)
@@ -2340,6 +2340,8 @@ repeat:
2340 goto repeat; 2340 goto repeat;
2341 return NULL; 2341 return NULL;
2342 } 2342 }
2343found:
2344 wait_on_page_writeback(page);
2343 return page; 2345 return page;
2344} 2346}
2345EXPORT_SYMBOL(grab_cache_page_write_begin); 2347EXPORT_SYMBOL(grab_cache_page_write_begin);