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| author | Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> | 2006-03-24 03:18:11 -0800 | 
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-03-24 07:33:26 -0800 | 
| commit | 4741c9fd36b3bcadd37238321c469049da94a4b9 (patch) | |
| tree | 4b3031b04cdbf2d3c5a4fcc1965ed857f1cf0ce4 | |
| parent | fa5a734e406b53761fcc5ee22366006f71112c2d (diff) | |
[PATCH] set_page_dirty() return value fixes
We need set_page_dirty() to return true if it actually transitioned the page
from a clean to dirty state.  This wasn't right in a couple of places.  Do a
kernel-wide audit, fix things up.
This leaves open the possibility of returning a negative errno from
set_page_dirty() sometime in the future.  But we don't do that at present.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/cris/arch-v32/drivers/cryptocop.c | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/block/rd.c | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/buffer.c | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/fs.h | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/page-writeback.c | 11 | 
5 files changed, 11 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/arch/cris/arch-v32/drivers/cryptocop.c b/arch/cris/arch-v32/drivers/cryptocop.c index 501fa52d8d3a..c59ee28a35f4 100644 --- a/arch/cris/arch-v32/drivers/cryptocop.c +++ b/arch/cris/arch-v32/drivers/cryptocop.c @@ -2944,7 +2944,7 @@ static int cryptocop_ioctl_process(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp, unsig  		int spdl_err;  		/* Mark output pages dirty. */  		spdl_err = set_page_dirty_lock(outpages[i]); -		DEBUG(if (spdl_err)printk("cryptocop_ioctl_process: set_page_dirty_lock returned %d\n", spdl_err)); +		DEBUG(if (spdl_err < 0)printk("cryptocop_ioctl_process: set_page_dirty_lock returned %d\n", spdl_err));  	}  	for (i = 0; i < nooutpages; i++){  		put_page(outpages[i]); diff --git a/drivers/block/rd.c b/drivers/block/rd.c index 1c54f46d3f70..940bfd7951e5 100644 --- a/drivers/block/rd.c +++ b/drivers/block/rd.c @@ -186,7 +186,8 @@ static int ramdisk_writepages(struct address_space *mapping,   */  static int ramdisk_set_page_dirty(struct page *page)  { -	SetPageDirty(page); +	if (!TestSetPageDirty(page)) +		return 1;  	return 0;  } diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c index 11ca6eb46a33..24262ea8cc50 100644 --- a/fs/buffer.c +++ b/fs/buffer.c @@ -865,8 +865,8 @@ int __set_page_dirty_buffers(struct page *page)  		}  		write_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);  		__mark_inode_dirty(mapping->host, I_DIRTY_PAGES); +		return 1;  	} -	  	return 0;  }  EXPORT_SYMBOL(__set_page_dirty_buffers); diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index 0ad70c1e5e55..092cfaee0cd2 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -350,7 +350,7 @@ struct address_space_operations {  	/* Write back some dirty pages from this mapping. */  	int (*writepages)(struct address_space *, struct writeback_control *); -	/* Set a page dirty */ +	/* Set a page dirty.  Return true if this dirtied it */  	int (*set_page_dirty)(struct page *page);  	int (*readpages)(struct file *filp, struct address_space *mapping, diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c index c67ddc464721..893d7677579e 100644 --- a/mm/page-writeback.c +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -628,8 +628,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(write_one_page);   */  int __set_page_dirty_nobuffers(struct page *page)  { -	int ret = 0; -  	if (!TestSetPageDirty(page)) {  		struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);  		struct address_space *mapping2; @@ -651,8 +649,9 @@ int __set_page_dirty_nobuffers(struct page *page)  							I_DIRTY_PAGES);  			}  		} +		return 1;  	} -	return ret; +	return 0;  }  EXPORT_SYMBOL(__set_page_dirty_nobuffers); @@ -682,8 +681,10 @@ int fastcall set_page_dirty(struct page *page)  			return (*spd)(page);  		return __set_page_dirty_buffers(page);  	} -	if (!PageDirty(page)) -		SetPageDirty(page); +	if (!PageDirty(page)) { +		if (!TestSetPageDirty(page)) +			return 1; +	}  	return 0;  }  EXPORT_SYMBOL(set_page_dirty);  | 
