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Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page-writeback.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/page-writeback.c | 27 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c index 5daf5568b9e1..227b867598e1 100644 --- a/mm/page-writeback.c +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -2112,12 +2112,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(account_page_dirtied); /* * Helper function for deaccounting dirty page without writeback. - * - * Doing this should *normally* only ever be done when a page - * is truncated, and is not actually mapped anywhere at all. However, - * fs/buffer.c does this when it notices that somebody has cleaned - * out all the buffers on a page without actually doing it through - * the VM. Can you say "ext3 is horribly ugly"? Thought you could. */ void account_page_cleaned(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping) { @@ -2127,7 +2121,6 @@ void account_page_cleaned(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping) task_io_account_cancelled_write(PAGE_CACHE_SIZE); } } -EXPORT_SYMBOL(account_page_cleaned); /* * For address_spaces which do not use buffers. Just tag the page as dirty in @@ -2266,6 +2259,26 @@ int set_page_dirty_lock(struct page *page) EXPORT_SYMBOL(set_page_dirty_lock); /* + * This cancels just the dirty bit on the kernel page itself, it does NOT + * actually remove dirty bits on any mmap's that may be around. It also + * leaves the page tagged dirty, so any sync activity will still find it on + * the dirty lists, and in particular, clear_page_dirty_for_io() will still + * look at the dirty bits in the VM. + * + * Doing this should *normally* only ever be done when a page is truncated, + * and is not actually mapped anywhere at all. However, fs/buffer.c does + * this when it notices that somebody has cleaned out all the buffers on a + * page without actually doing it through the VM. Can you say "ext3 is + * horribly ugly"? Thought you could. + */ +void cancel_dirty_page(struct page *page) +{ + if (TestClearPageDirty(page)) + account_page_cleaned(page, page_mapping(page)); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(cancel_dirty_page); + +/* * Clear a page's dirty flag, while caring for dirty memory accounting. * Returns true if the page was previously dirty. * |