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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.osdl.org>2006-12-20 21:46:42 (GMT)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.osdl.org>2006-12-21 17:19:57 (GMT)
commitfba2591bf4e418b6c3f9f8794c9dd8fe40ae7bd9 (patch)
treed6909973e402b3171ee409f660b33df2fad029ba /mm/page-writeback.c
parent46d2277c796f9f4937bfa668c40b2e3f43e93dd0 (diff)
downloadlinux-fba2591bf4e418b6c3f9f8794c9dd8fe40ae7bd9.tar.xz
VM: Remove "clear_page_dirty()" and "test_clear_page_dirty()" functions
They were horribly easy to mis-use because of their tempting naming, and they also did way more than any users of them generally wanted them to do. A dirty page can become clean under two circumstances: (a) when we write it out. We have "clear_page_dirty_for_io()" for this, and that function remains unchanged. In the "for IO" case it is not sufficient to just clear the dirty bit, you also have to mark the page as being under writeback etc. (b) when we actually remove a page due to it becoming inaccessible to users, notably because it was truncate()'d away or the file (or metadata) no longer exists, and we thus want to cancel any outstanding dirty state. For the (b) case, we now introduce "cancel_dirty_page()", which only touches the page state itself, and verifies that the page is not mapped (since cancelling writes on a mapped page would be actively wrong as it is still accessible to users). Some filesystems need to be fixed up for this: CIFS, FUSE, JFS, ReiserFS, XFS all use the old confusing functions, and will be fixed separately in subsequent commits (with some of them just removing the offending logic, and others using clear_page_dirty_for_io()). This was confirmed by Martin Michlmayr to fix the apt database corruption on ARM. Cc: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: Andrei Popa <andrei.popa@i-neo.ro> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Gordon Farquharson <gordonfarquharson@gmail.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page-writeback.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/page-writeback.c32
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 32 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 237107c..b3a198c 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -845,38 +845,6 @@ int set_page_dirty_lock(struct page *page)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(set_page_dirty_lock);
/*
- * Clear a page's dirty flag, while caring for dirty memory accounting.
- * Returns true if the page was previously dirty.
- */
-int test_clear_page_dirty(struct page *page)
-{
- struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
- unsigned long flags;
-
- if (!mapping)
- return TestClearPageDirty(page);
-
- write_lock_irqsave(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
- if (TestClearPageDirty(page)) {
- radix_tree_tag_clear(&mapping->page_tree,
- page_index(page), PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY);
- write_unlock_irqrestore(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
- /*
- * We can continue to use `mapping' here because the
- * page is locked, which pins the address_space
- */
- if (mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) {
- page_mkclean(page);
- dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_DIRTY);
- }
- return 1;
- }
- write_unlock_irqrestore(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
- return 0;
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(test_clear_page_dirty);
-
-/*
* Clear a page's dirty flag, while caring for dirty memory accounting.
* Returns true if the page was previously dirty.
*