The patch titled
Preserve the dirty bit in init_page_buffers
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
preserve-the-dirty-bit-in-init_page_buffers.patch
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Subject: Preserve the dirty bit in init_page_buffers
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!
Buffer heads appear on ramdisk pages when a filesystem calls getblk, which
through a series of function calls eventually calls init_page_buffers.
So to fix the mismatch between buffer head state and page state this patch
modifies init_page_buffers to transfer the dirty bit from the page to the
buffer heads like we currently do for the uptodate bit.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
fs/buffer.c | 3 +++
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff -puN fs/buffer.c~preserve-the-dirty-bit-in-init_page_buffers fs/buffer.c
--- a/fs/buffer.c~preserve-the-dirty-bit-in-init_page_buffers
+++ a/fs/buffer.c
@@ -972,6 +972,7 @@ init_page_buffers(struct page *page, str
struct buffer_head *head = page_buffers(page);
struct buffer_head *bh = head;
int uptodate = PageUptodate(page);
+ int dirty = PageDirty(page);
do {
if (!buffer_mapped(bh)) {
@@ -980,6 +981,8 @@ init_page_buffers(struct page *page, str
bh->b_blocknr = block;
if (uptodate)
set_buffer_uptodate(bh);
+ if (dirty)
+ set_buffer_dirty(bh);
set_buffer_mapped(bh);
}
block++;
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freezer-take-kernel_execve-into-consideration.patch
freezer-fix-kthread_create-vs-freezer-theoretical-race.patch
freezer-fix-pf_nofreeze-vs-freezeable-race.patch
freezer-move-frozen_process-to-kernel-power-processc.patch
dvb_en_50221-convert-to-kthread-api.patch
fix-i-oat-for-kexec.patch
pci-disable-msi-by-default-on-systems-with-serverworks-ht1000-chips.patch
x86_64-build-and-use-gdt-on-copied-compressed-kernel.patch
i386-efi-fix-proc-iomem-type-for-kexec-tools.patch
clone-flag-clone_parent_tidptr-leaves-invalid-results-in-memory.patch
preserve-the-dirty-bit-in-init_page_buffers.patch
rd-mark-ramdisk-buffer-heads-dirty-in-ramdisk_set_page_dirty.patch
rd-simplify-by-using-the-same-helper-functions-in-libfs.patch
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