linux_old1/Documentation/filesystems
Trond Myklebust e3db7691e9 [PATCH] NFS: Fix race in nfs_release_page()
NFS: Fix race in nfs_release_page()

    invalidate_inode_pages2() may find the dirty bit has been set on a page
    owing to the fact that the page may still be mapped after it was locked.
    Only after the call to unmap_mapping_range() are we sure that the page
    can no longer be dirtied.
    In order to fix this, NFS has hooked the releasepage() method and tries
    to write the page out between the call to unmap_mapping_range() and the
    call to remove_mapping(). This, however leads to deadlocks in the page
    reclaim code, where the page may be locked without holding a reference
    to the inode or dentry.

    Fix is to add a new address_space_operation, launder_page(), which will
    attempt to write out a dirty page without releasing the page lock.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

    Also, the bare SetPageDirty() can skew all sort of accounting leading to
    other nasties.

[akpm@osdl.org: cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2007-01-11 18:18:21 -08:00
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configfs Fix typos in /Documentation : 'U-Z' 2006-11-30 04:58:40 +01:00
00-INDEX [PATCH] Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt 2006-10-11 11:14:19 -07:00
9p.txt [PATCH] 9p: update documentation 2006-03-25 08:22:54 -08:00
Exporting Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
Locking [PATCH] NFS: Fix race in nfs_release_page() 2007-01-11 18:18:21 -08:00
adfs.txt Fix typos in /Documentation : 'U-Z' 2006-11-30 04:58:40 +01:00
affs.txt [PATCH] kernel Doc/ URL corrections 2005-11-22 09:14:30 -08:00
afs.txt Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
automount-support.txt VFS: Unexport do_kern_mount() and clean up simple_pin_fs() 2006-06-09 09:34:16 -04:00
befs.txt Fix typos in Documentation/: 'Q'-'R' 2006-10-03 22:54:15 +02:00
bfs.txt [PATCH] update Tigran's email addresses 2006-12-13 09:05:53 -08:00
cifs.txt Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
coda.txt Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
cramfs.txt Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
dentry-locking.txt [PATCH] VFS: split dentry locking documentation 2005-11-07 07:53:56 -08:00
directory-locking Documentation: remove duplicated words 2006-10-03 22:57:56 +02:00
dlmfs.txt Fix typos in Documentation/: 'D'-'E' 2006-10-03 22:47:42 +02:00
ext2.txt Fix typos in Documentation/: 'N'-'P' 2006-10-03 22:52:05 +02:00
ext3.txt [PATCH] ext3: Add "-o bh" option 2006-06-26 09:58:20 -07:00
ext4.txt [PATCH] Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt 2006-10-11 11:14:19 -07:00
files.txt Documentation: remove duplicated words 2006-10-03 22:57:56 +02:00
fuse.txt [PATCH] fuse: fix typo 2006-12-30 10:56:45 -08:00
gfs2.txt [GFS2] Update documentation 2006-04-25 15:44:04 -04:00
hfs.txt Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
hpfs.txt Fix typos in /Documentation : 'U-Z' 2006-11-30 04:58:40 +01:00
inotify.txt [PATCH] inotify (5/5): update kernel documentation 2006-06-20 05:25:19 -04:00
isofs.txt It's UTF-8 2006-03-22 00:13:35 +01:00
jfs.txt It's UTF-8 2006-03-22 00:13:35 +01:00
ncpfs.txt Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
ntfs.txt Fix typos in /Documentation : Misc 2006-11-30 05:21:10 +01:00
ocfs2.txt ocfs2: update mount option documentation 2006-12-07 17:48:41 -08:00
porting [PATCH] VFS: Permit filesystem to override root dentry on mount 2006-06-23 07:42:45 -07:00
proc.txt Fix typos in /Documentation : 'U-Z' 2006-11-30 04:58:40 +01:00
ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt [PATCH] Initramfs docs update 2006-06-25 10:01:21 -07:00
relay.txt [PATCH] Documentation update for relay interface 2006-08-27 11:01:31 -07:00
romfs.txt Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
smbfs.txt Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
spufs.txt Fix typos in /Documentation : 'U-Z' 2006-11-30 04:58:40 +01:00
sysfs-pci.txt [PATCH] PCI: document sysfs rom file interface 2006-01-09 12:13:19 -08:00
sysfs.txt Fix typos in Documentation/: 'D'-'E' 2006-10-03 22:47:42 +02:00
sysv-fs.txt [PATCH] fs/sysv/: doc cleanup 2006-12-07 08:39:44 -08:00
tmpfs.txt Documentation: remove duplicated words 2006-10-03 22:57:56 +02:00
udf.txt [PATCH] Update udf documentation to reflect current state of read/write support 2006-11-16 11:43:38 -08:00
ufs.txt Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
vfat.txt Documentation: remove duplicated words 2006-10-03 22:57:56 +02:00
vfs.txt Documentation: remove duplicated words 2006-10-03 22:57:56 +02:00
xfs.txt [XFS] Update XFS documentation. 2005-11-03 13:46:43 +11:00
xip.txt [PATCH] xip: description 2005-06-24 00:06:42 -07:00