From 3f31fddfa26b7594b44ff2b34f9a04ba409e0f91 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mingming Cao Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:46:22 -0700 Subject: jbd: fix race between free buffer and commit transaction journal_try_to_free_buffers() could race with jbd commit transaction when the later is holding the buffer reference while waiting for the data buffer to flush to disk. If the caller of journal_try_to_free_buffers() request tries hard to release the buffers, it will treat the failure as error and return back to the caller. We have seen the directo IO failed due to this race. Some of the caller of releasepage() also expecting the buffer to be dropped when passed with GFP_KERNEL mask to the releasepage()->journal_try_to_free_buffers(). With this patch, if the caller is passing the __GFP_WAIT and __GFP_FS to indicating this call could wait, in case of try_to_free_buffers() failed, let's waiting for journal_commit_transaction() to finish commit the current committing transaction, then try to free those buffers again. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao Reviewed-by: Badari Pulavarty Acked-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/filemap.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'mm') diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c index 7675b91f4f63..5d4c880d7cd9 100644 --- a/mm/filemap.c +++ b/mm/filemap.c @@ -2563,9 +2563,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_file_aio_write); * Otherwise return zero. * * The @gfp_mask argument specifies whether I/O may be performed to release - * this page (__GFP_IO), and whether the call may block (__GFP_WAIT). + * this page (__GFP_IO), and whether the call may block (__GFP_WAIT & __GFP_FS). * - * NOTE: @gfp_mask may go away, and this function may become non-blocking. */ int try_to_release_page(struct page *page, gfp_t gfp_mask) { -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2