From 111ebb6e6f7bd7de6d722c5848e95621f43700d9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: OGAWA Hirofumi Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 02:03:26 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] writeback: fix range handling When a writeback_control's `start' and `end' fields are used to indicate a one-byte-range starting at file offset zero, the required values of .start=0,.end=0 mean that the ->writepages() implementation has no way of telling that it is being asked to perform a range request. Because we're currently overloading (start == 0 && end == 0) to mean "this is not a write-a-range request". To make all this sane, the patch changes range of writeback_control. So caller does: If it is calling ->writepages() to write pages, it sets range (range_start/end or range_cyclic) always. And if range_cyclic is true, ->writepages() thinks the range is cyclic, otherwise it just uses range_start and range_end. This patch does, - Add LLONG_MAX, LLONG_MIN, ULLONG_MAX to include/linux/kernel.h -1 is usually ok for range_end (type is long long). But, if someone did, range_end += val; range_end is "val - 1" u64val = range_end >> bits; u64val is "~(0ULL)" or something, they are wrong. So, this adds LLONG_MAX to avoid nasty things, and uses LLONG_MAX for range_end. - All callers of ->writepages() sets range_start/end or range_cyclic. - Fix updates of ->writeback_index. It seems already bit strange. If it starts at 0 and ended by check of nr_to_write, this last index may reduce chance to scan end of file. So, this updates ->writeback_index only if range_cyclic is true or whole-file is scanned. Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi Cc: Nathan Scott Cc: Anton Altaparmakov Cc: Steven French Cc: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/vmscan.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'mm/vmscan.c') diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index 46be8a02280e..bc5d4f43036c 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -339,6 +339,8 @@ pageout_t pageout(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping) struct writeback_control wbc = { .sync_mode = WB_SYNC_NONE, .nr_to_write = SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX, + .range_start = 0, + .range_end = LLONG_MAX, .nonblocking = 1, .for_reclaim = 1, }; -- cgit v1.2.3-55-g7522