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-rw-r--r--drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/include/linux/lustre_patchless_compat.h4
-rw-r--r--fs/buffer.c4
-rw-r--r--include/linux/mm.h1
-rw-r--r--mm/page-writeback.c27
-rw-r--r--mm/truncate.c4
5 files changed, 25 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/include/linux/lustre_patchless_compat.h b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/include/linux/lustre_patchless_compat.h
index d72605864b0a..14562788e4e0 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/include/linux/lustre_patchless_compat.h
+++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/include/linux/lustre_patchless_compat.h
@@ -55,9 +55,7 @@ truncate_complete_page(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *page)
if (PagePrivate(page))
page->mapping->a_ops->invalidatepage(page, 0, PAGE_CACHE_SIZE);
- if (TestClearPageDirty(page))
- account_page_cleaned(page, mapping);
-
+ cancel_dirty_page(page);
ClearPageMappedToDisk(page);
ll_delete_from_page_cache(page);
}
diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
index f96173ad62d9..f21327d1f673 100644
--- a/fs/buffer.c
+++ b/fs/buffer.c
@@ -3232,8 +3232,8 @@ int try_to_free_buffers(struct page *page)
* to synchronise against __set_page_dirty_buffers and prevent the
* dirty bit from being lost.
*/
- if (ret && TestClearPageDirty(page))
- account_page_cleaned(page, mapping);
+ if (ret)
+ cancel_dirty_page(page);
spin_unlock(&mapping->private_lock);
out:
if (buffers_to_free) {
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 0755b9fd03a7..a83cf3a6f78e 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -1215,6 +1215,7 @@ void account_page_dirtied(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping);
void account_page_cleaned(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping);
int set_page_dirty(struct page *page);
int set_page_dirty_lock(struct page *page);
+void cancel_dirty_page(struct page *page);
int clear_page_dirty_for_io(struct page *page);
int get_cmdline(struct task_struct *task, char *buffer, int buflen);
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 5daf5568b9e1..227b867598e1 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -2112,12 +2112,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(account_page_dirtied);
/*
* Helper function for deaccounting dirty page without writeback.
- *
- * Doing this should *normally* only ever be done when a page
- * is truncated, and is not actually mapped anywhere at all. However,
- * fs/buffer.c does this when it notices that somebody has cleaned
- * out all the buffers on a page without actually doing it through
- * the VM. Can you say "ext3 is horribly ugly"? Thought you could.
*/
void account_page_cleaned(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping)
{
@@ -2127,7 +2121,6 @@ void account_page_cleaned(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping)
task_io_account_cancelled_write(PAGE_CACHE_SIZE);
}
}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(account_page_cleaned);
/*
* For address_spaces which do not use buffers. Just tag the page as dirty in
@@ -2266,6 +2259,26 @@ int set_page_dirty_lock(struct page *page)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(set_page_dirty_lock);
/*
+ * This cancels just the dirty bit on the kernel page itself, it does NOT
+ * actually remove dirty bits on any mmap's that may be around. It also
+ * leaves the page tagged dirty, so any sync activity will still find it on
+ * the dirty lists, and in particular, clear_page_dirty_for_io() will still
+ * look at the dirty bits in the VM.
+ *
+ * Doing this should *normally* only ever be done when a page is truncated,
+ * and is not actually mapped anywhere at all. However, fs/buffer.c does
+ * this when it notices that somebody has cleaned out all the buffers on a
+ * page without actually doing it through the VM. Can you say "ext3 is
+ * horribly ugly"? Thought you could.
+ */
+void cancel_dirty_page(struct page *page)
+{
+ if (TestClearPageDirty(page))
+ account_page_cleaned(page, page_mapping(page));
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(cancel_dirty_page);
+
+/*
* Clear a page's dirty flag, while caring for dirty memory accounting.
* Returns true if the page was previously dirty.
*
diff --git a/mm/truncate.c b/mm/truncate.c
index 66af9031fae8..0c360259c085 100644
--- a/mm/truncate.c
+++ b/mm/truncate.c
@@ -116,9 +116,7 @@ truncate_complete_page(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *page)
* the VM has canceled the dirty bit (eg ext3 journaling).
* Hence dirty accounting check is placed after invalidation.
*/
- if (TestClearPageDirty(page))
- account_page_cleaned(page, mapping);
-
+ cancel_dirty_page(page);
ClearPageMappedToDisk(page);
delete_from_page_cache(page);
return 0;