The patch titled
rd: Mark ramdisk buffer heads dirty in ramdisk_set_page_dirty
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
rd-mark-ramdisk-buffer-heads-dirty-in-ramdisk_set_page_dirty.patch
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Subject: rd: Mark ramdisk buffer heads dirty in ramdisk_set_page_dirty
From: Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
The problem: When we are trying to free buffers try_to_free_buffers will look
at ramdisk pages with clean buffer heads and remove the dirty bit from the
page. Resulting in ramdisk pages with data that get removed from the page
cache. Ouch!
When we mark a ramdisk page dirty we call set_page_dirty which then calls
ramdisk_set_page_dirty. Currently we don't mark the buffer heads dirty
leaving us susceptible to the problem above.
So to fix the mismatch between buffer head state and page state this patch
modifies ramdisk_set_page_dirty to set the dirty bit on all of the buffers a
page may posses.
I set the uptodate bit on the buffer head so that later we can use
simple_commit_write, and because it is trivially safe.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
drivers/block/rd.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
1 files changed, 15 insertions(+)
diff -puN
drivers/block/rd.c~rd-mark-ramdisk-buffer-heads-dirty-in-ramdisk_set_page_dirty
drivers/block/rd.c
---
a/drivers/block/rd.c~rd-mark-ramdisk-buffer-heads-dirty-in-ramdisk_set_page_dirty
+++ a/drivers/block/rd.c
@@ -184,6 +184,21 @@ static int ramdisk_writepages(struct add
*/
static int ramdisk_set_page_dirty(struct page *page)
{
+ struct address_space * const mapping = page_mapping(page);
+
+ spin_lock(&mapping->private_lock);
+ if (page_has_buffers(page)) {
+ struct buffer_head *head = page_buffers(page);
+ struct buffer_head *bh = head;
+
+ do {
+ set_buffer_uptodate(bh);
+ set_buffer_dirty(bh);
+ bh = bh->b_this_page;
+ } while (bh != head);
+ }
+ spin_unlock(&mapping->private_lock);
+
if (!TestSetPageDirty(page))
return 1;
return 0;
_
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