On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 20:19 +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > >
> > > See the file "Locking" for more details.
> > >
> > >
> > > The "should set PG_Writeback" bit threw me off I guess.
> >
> > Hmm, set_page_writeback() is also the one clearing the radix tree dirty
> > tag. So if that is not called, we get in a bit of a mess, no?
> >
> > Which makes me think hostfs is buggy.
>
> Yes, looks like that sort of usage is not valid. But not clearing the
> dirty tag won't cause any malfunction, it'll just waste some CPU when
> looking for dirty pages to write back. This is probably why this
> wasn't noticed earlier.
Documentation/filesystems/Locking is also quite clear on the need to
call set_page_writeback() and end_page_writeback().
minimal fix for hostfs
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
diff --git a/fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c b/fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c
index 8966b05..b6c1e12 100644
--- a/fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c
+++ b/fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c
@@ -415,6 +415,7 @@ int hostfs_writepage(struct page *page, struct
writeback_control *wbc)
int end_index = inode->i_size >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
int err;
+ set_page_writeback(page);
if (page->index >= end_index)
count = inode->i_size & (PAGE_CACHE_SIZE-1);
@@ -438,6 +439,7 @@ int hostfs_writepage(struct page *page, struct
writeback_control *wbc)
kunmap(page);
unlock_page(page);
+ end_page_writeback(page);
return err;
}
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