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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/7] fs: block_page_mkwrite should wait for writeback to finish
On Mon 09-05-11 16:03:34, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> 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 <djwong@us.ibm.com>
> ---
> fs/buffer.c | 1 +
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
>
> diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
> index a08bb8e..cf9a795 100644
> --- a/fs/buffer.c
> +++ b/fs/buffer.c
> @@ -2361,6 +2361,7 @@ block_page_mkwrite(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_fault *vmf,
> if (!ret)
> ret = block_commit_write(page, 0, end);
>
> + wait_on_page_writeback(page);
Not that it matters much but it would seem more logical to me if we
waited only in not-error case (i.e. after the error handling below).

Honza
> if (unlikely(ret)) {
> unlock_page(page);
> if (ret == -ENOMEM)
>
--
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
SUSE Labs, CR


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