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author | Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> | 2007-03-29 10:20:37 +0200 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-03-29 17:22:25 +0200 |
commit | 16a100190d39592d1d56ff5a0b978b20288c3427 (patch) | |
tree | 63af0d78497e540f096262da83ed44ddbe1eab94 /mm/madvise.c | |
parent | [PATCH] holepunch: fix shmem_truncate_range punch locking (diff) | |
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[PATCH] holepunch: fix disconnected pages after second truncate
shmem_truncate_range has its own truncate_inode_pages_range, to free any pages
racily instantiated while it was in progress: a SHMEM_PAGEIN flag is set when
this might have happened. But holepunching gets no chance to clear that flag
at the start of vmtruncate_range, so it's always set (unless a truncate came
just before), so holepunch almost always does this second
truncate_inode_pages_range.
shmem holepunch has unlikely swap<->file races hereabouts whatever we do
(without a fuller rework than is fit for this release): I was going to skip
the second truncate in the punch_hole case, but Miklos points out that would
make holepunch correctness more vulnerable to swapoff. So keep the second
truncate, but follow it by an unmap_mapping_range to eliminate the
disconnected pages (freed from pagecache while still mapped in userspace) that
it might have left behind.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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