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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-01-10 12:04:41 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-01-10 12:04:41 +0100
commitb17304245f0db0ac69b795c411407808f3f2796d (patch)
tree63ed3915d9295bd08f640bf25c322064ba787fad /fs/block_dev.c
parentbzip2/lzma: centralize format detection (diff)
parentMerge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arjan/linux-2.6-async-2 (diff)
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Merge branch 'linus' into x86/setup-lzma
Conflicts: init/do_mounts_rd.c
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/block_dev.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/block_dev.c31
1 files changed, 30 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/block_dev.c b/fs/block_dev.c
index 349a26c10001..ac7031f12ea5 100644
--- a/fs/block_dev.c
+++ b/fs/block_dev.c
@@ -1005,6 +1005,7 @@ static int __blkdev_get(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode, int for_part)
}
lock_kernel();
+ restart:
ret = -ENXIO;
disk = get_gendisk(bdev->bd_dev, &partno);
@@ -1025,6 +1026,19 @@ static int __blkdev_get(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode, int for_part)
if (disk->fops->open) {
ret = disk->fops->open(bdev, mode);
+ if (ret == -ERESTARTSYS) {
+ /* Lost a race with 'disk' being
+ * deleted, try again.
+ * See md.c
+ */
+ disk_put_part(bdev->bd_part);
+ bdev->bd_part = NULL;
+ module_put(disk->fops->owner);
+ put_disk(disk);
+ bdev->bd_disk = NULL;
+ mutex_unlock(&bdev->bd_mutex);
+ goto restart;
+ }
if (ret)
goto out_clear;
}
@@ -1220,6 +1234,20 @@ static long block_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned cmd, unsigned long arg)
return blkdev_ioctl(bdev, mode, cmd, arg);
}
+/*
+ * Try to release a page associated with block device when the system
+ * is under memory pressure.
+ */
+static int blkdev_releasepage(struct page *page, gfp_t wait)
+{
+ struct super_block *super = BDEV_I(page->mapping->host)->bdev.bd_super;
+
+ if (super && super->s_op->bdev_try_to_free_page)
+ return super->s_op->bdev_try_to_free_page(super, page, wait);
+
+ return try_to_free_buffers(page);
+}
+
static const struct address_space_operations def_blk_aops = {
.readpage = blkdev_readpage,
.writepage = blkdev_writepage,
@@ -1227,6 +1255,7 @@ static const struct address_space_operations def_blk_aops = {
.write_begin = blkdev_write_begin,
.write_end = blkdev_write_end,
.writepages = generic_writepages,
+ .releasepage = blkdev_releasepage,
.direct_IO = blkdev_direct_IO,
};
@@ -1262,7 +1291,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(ioctl_by_bdev);
/**
* lookup_bdev - lookup a struct block_device by name
- * @path: special file representing the block device
+ * @pathname: special file representing the block device
*
* Get a reference to the blockdevice at @pathname in the current
* namespace if possible and return it. Return ERR_PTR(error)