linux/mm
Mingming Cao 3f31fddfa2 jbd: fix race between free buffer and commit transaction
journal_try_to_free_buffers() could race with jbd commit transaction when
the later is holding the buffer reference while waiting for the data
buffer to flush to disk.  If the caller of journal_try_to_free_buffers()
request tries hard to release the buffers, it will treat the failure as
error and return back to the caller.  We have seen the directo IO failed
due to this race.  Some of the caller of releasepage() also expecting the
buffer to be dropped when passed with GFP_KERNEL mask to the
releasepage()->journal_try_to_free_buffers().

With this patch, if the caller is passing the __GFP_WAIT and __GFP_FS to
indicating this call could wait, in case of try_to_free_buffers() failed,
let's waiting for journal_commit_transaction() to finish commit the
current committing transaction, then try to free those buffers again.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:32 -07:00
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allocpercpu.c Merge commit 'v2.6.26-rc9' into cpus4096 2008-07-06 14:23:39 +02:00
backing-dev.c mm: bdi: fix race in bdi_class device creation 2008-05-20 13:31:53 -07:00
bootmem.c bootmem: replace node_boot_start in struct bootmem_data 2008-07-24 10:47:20 -07:00
bounce.c block: Initial support for data-less (or empty) barrier support 2007-10-16 11:03:56 +02:00
dmapool.c dmapool: enable debugging for CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON too 2008-04-28 08:58:20 -07:00
fadvise.c xip: support non-struct page backed memory 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
filemap_xip.c xip: support non-struct page backed memory 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
filemap.c jbd: fix race between free buffer and commit transaction 2008-07-25 10:53:32 -07:00
fremap.c mm: fix various kernel-doc comments 2008-03-19 18:53:35 -07:00
highmem.c highmem: Export totalhigh_pages. 2008-07-19 22:39:46 -07:00
hugetlb.c hugetlb: quota is not freed for unused reserved private huge pages 2008-07-24 10:47:19 -07:00
internal.h mm: export prep_compound_page to mm 2008-07-24 10:47:17 -07:00
Kconfig mm: make CONFIG_MIGRATION available w/o CONFIG_NUMA 2008-07-24 10:47:21 -07:00
maccess.c kgdb: fix optional arch functions and probe_kernel_* 2008-04-17 20:05:39 +02:00
madvise.c xip: support non-struct page backed memory 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
Makefile mm: remove mm_init compilation dependency on CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT 2008-07-24 10:47:17 -07:00
memcontrol.c memcg: simple stats for memory resource controller 2008-05-01 08:04:02 -07:00
memory_hotplug.c memory-hotplug: add sysfs removable attribute for hotplug memory remove 2008-07-24 10:47:21 -07:00
memory.c hugetlb: introduce pud_huge 2008-07-24 10:47:18 -07:00
mempolicy.c hugetlb: modular state for hugetlb page size 2008-07-24 10:47:17 -07:00
mempool.c spelling fixes: mm/ 2007-10-20 01:27:18 +02:00
migrate.c mm: make CONFIG_MIGRATION available w/o CONFIG_NUMA 2008-07-24 10:47:21 -07:00
mincore.c mm: remove nopage 2008-04-28 08:58:18 -07:00
mlock.c do not limit locked memory when RLIMIT_MEMLOCK is RLIM_INFINITY 2007-07-16 09:05:37 -07:00
mm_init.c mm: create /sys/kernel/mm 2008-07-24 10:47:17 -07:00
mmap.c hugetlb: modular state for hugetlb page size 2008-07-24 10:47:17 -07:00
mmzone.c mm: filter based on a nodemask as well as a gfp_mask 2008-04-28 08:58:19 -07:00
mprotect.c mm: record MAP_NORESERVE status on vmas and fix small page mprotect reservations 2008-07-24 10:47:16 -07:00
mremap.c sparse pointer use of zero as null 2007-10-18 14:37:31 -07:00
msync.c Detach sched.h from mm.h 2007-05-21 09:18:19 -07:00
nommu.c nommu: Correct kobjsize() page validity checks. 2008-06-12 07:56:17 -07:00
oom_kill.c oom_kill: remove unused parameter in badness() 2008-04-28 08:58:26 -07:00
page_alloc.c memory hotplug: small fixes to bootmem freeing for memory hotremove 2008-07-24 10:47:21 -07:00
page_io.c mm: fix PageUptodate data race 2008-02-05 09:44:19 -08:00
page_isolation.c memory hotremove: unset migrate type "ISOLATE" after removal 2007-11-14 18:45:38 -08:00
page-writeback.c Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4 2008-07-15 08:36:38 -07:00
pagewalk.c pagemap: pass mm into pagewalkers 2008-06-12 18:05:41 -07:00
pdflush.c pdflush: use time_after() instead of open-coding it 2008-07-25 10:53:28 -07:00
prio_tree.c spelling fixes: mm/ 2007-10-20 01:27:18 +02:00
quicklist.c quicklists: Only consider memory that can be used with GFP_KERNEL 2008-01-14 08:52:22 -08:00
readahead.c mm: bdi: export BDI attributes in sysfs 2008-04-30 08:29:49 -07:00
rmap.c mm: remove nopage 2008-04-28 08:58:18 -07:00
shmem_acl.c [PATCH] Fix typos in mm/shmem_acl.c 2006-10-11 11:14:23 -07:00
shmem.c tmpfs: support aio 2008-07-24 10:47:16 -07:00
slab.c Merge branch 'generic-ipi' into generic-ipi-for-linus 2008-07-15 21:55:59 +02:00
slob.c slob: record page flag overlays explicitly 2008-07-24 10:47:15 -07:00
slub.c slub: record page flag overlays explicitly 2008-07-24 10:47:15 -07:00
sparse-vmemmap.c Christoph has moved 2008-07-04 10:40:04 -07:00
sparse.c memory hotplug: allocate usemap on the section with pgdat 2008-07-24 10:47:21 -07:00
swap_state.c mm: bdi: add separate writeback accounting capability 2008-04-30 08:29:50 -07:00
swap.c mm: remove initialization of static per-cpu variables 2008-07-24 10:47:21 -07:00
swapfile.c mm: fix ever-decreasing swap priority 2008-07-24 10:47:21 -07:00
thrash.c Bug in mm/thrash.c function grab_swap_token() 2007-05-11 08:29:32 -07:00
tiny-shmem.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 2008-03-25 08:57:47 -07:00
truncate.c fix invalidate_inode_pages2_range() to not clear ret 2008-04-28 08:58:18 -07:00
util.c fix mm/util.c:krealloc() 2007-11-14 18:45:41 -08:00
vmalloc.c vmallocinfo: add NUMA information 2008-07-24 10:47:17 -07:00
vmscan.c mm: fix incorrect variable type in do_try_to_free_pages() 2008-06-12 18:05:39 -07:00
vmstat.c mm/vmstat.c: proper externs 2008-07-24 10:47:14 -07:00