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| author | Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> | 2022-05-25 02:55:07 +0000 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> | 2022-05-25 02:55:07 +0000 |
| commit | fdaf9a5840acaab18694a19e0eb0aa51162eeeed (patch) | |
| tree | a027770138bccf9114cc83bafaa57accc13c91a6 /mm/page-writeback.c | |
| parent | Merge tag 'iomap-5.19-merge-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux (diff) | |
| parent | nilfs2: Fix some kernel-doc comments (diff) | |
| download | kernel-fdaf9a5840acaab18694a19e0eb0aa51162eeeed.tar.gz kernel-fdaf9a5840acaab18694a19e0eb0aa51162eeeed.zip | |
Merge tag 'folio-5.19' of git://git.infradead.org/users/willy/pagecache
Pull page cache updates from Matthew Wilcox:
- Appoint myself page cache maintainer
- Fix how scsicam uses the page cache
- Use the memalloc_nofs_save() API to replace AOP_FLAG_NOFS
- Remove the AOP flags entirely
- Remove pagecache_write_begin() and pagecache_write_end()
- Documentation updates
- Convert several address_space operations to use folios:
- is_dirty_writeback
- readpage becomes read_folio
- releasepage becomes release_folio
- freepage becomes free_folio
- Change filler_t to require a struct file pointer be the first
argument like ->read_folio
* tag 'folio-5.19' of git://git.infradead.org/users/willy/pagecache: (107 commits)
nilfs2: Fix some kernel-doc comments
Appoint myself page cache maintainer
fs: Remove aops->freepage
secretmem: Convert to free_folio
nfs: Convert to free_folio
orangefs: Convert to free_folio
fs: Add free_folio address space operation
fs: Convert drop_buffers() to use a folio
fs: Change try_to_free_buffers() to take a folio
jbd2: Convert release_buffer_page() to use a folio
jbd2: Convert jbd2_journal_try_to_free_buffers to take a folio
reiserfs: Convert release_buffer_page() to use a folio
fs: Remove last vestiges of releasepage
ubifs: Convert to release_folio
reiserfs: Convert to release_folio
orangefs: Convert to release_folio
ocfs2: Convert to release_folio
nilfs2: Remove comment about releasepage
nfs: Convert to release_folio
jfs: Convert to release_folio
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Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page-writeback.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/page-writeback.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c index 7e2da284e427..fa1117db4610 100644 --- a/mm/page-writeback.c +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -2602,10 +2602,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(folio_redirty_for_writepage); * folio_mark_dirty - Mark a folio as being modified. * @folio: The folio. * - * For folios with a mapping this should be done with the folio lock held - * for the benefit of asynchronous memory errors who prefer a consistent - * dirty state. This rule can be broken in some special cases, - * but should be better not to. + * The folio may not be truncated while this function is running. + * Holding the folio lock is sufficient to prevent truncation, but some + * callers cannot acquire a sleeping lock. These callers instead hold + * the page table lock for a page table which contains at least one page + * in this folio. Truncation will block on the page table lock as it + * unmaps pages before removing the folio from its mapping. * * Return: True if the folio was newly dirtied, false if it was already dirty. */ |
