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authorNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>2006-09-25 23:31:24 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-09-26 08:48:48 -0700
commitdb37648cd6ce9b828abd6d49aa3d269926ee7b7d (patch)
treea0155c7897f4706386d10c8718f98687bc357c82 /include
parent28e4d965e6131ace1e813e93aebca89ac6b82dc1 (diff)
[PATCH] mm: non syncing lock_page()
lock_page needs the caller to have a reference on the page->mapping inode due to sync_page, ergo set_page_dirty_lock is obviously buggy according to its comments. Solve it by introducing a new lock_page_nosync which does not do a sync_page. akpm: unpleasant solution to an unpleasant problem. If it goes wrong it could cause great slowdowns while the lock_page() caller waits for kblockd to perform the unplug. And if a filesystem has special sync_page() requirements (none presently do), permanent hangs are possible. otoh, set_page_dirty_lock() is usually (always?) called against userspace pages. They are always up-to-date, so there shouldn't be any pending read I/O against these pages. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/pagemap.h15
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/pagemap.h b/include/linux/pagemap.h
index 0a2f5d27f60e..64f950925151 100644
--- a/include/linux/pagemap.h
+++ b/include/linux/pagemap.h
@@ -130,14 +130,29 @@ static inline pgoff_t linear_page_index(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
}
extern void FASTCALL(__lock_page(struct page *page));
+extern void FASTCALL(__lock_page_nosync(struct page *page));
extern void FASTCALL(unlock_page(struct page *page));
+/*
+ * lock_page may only be called if we have the page's inode pinned.
+ */
static inline void lock_page(struct page *page)
{
might_sleep();
if (TestSetPageLocked(page))
__lock_page(page);
}
+
+/*
+ * lock_page_nosync should only be used if we can't pin the page's inode.
+ * Doesn't play quite so well with block device plugging.
+ */
+static inline void lock_page_nosync(struct page *page)
+{
+ might_sleep();
+ if (TestSetPageLocked(page))
+ __lock_page_nosync(page);
+}
/*
* This is exported only for wait_on_page_locked/wait_on_page_writeback.