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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-09-04 13:02:35 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-09-04 13:02:35 +0200
commit42390cdec5f6e6e2ee54f308474a6ef7dd16aa5c (patch)
treee9684c84f53272319a5acd4b9c86503f30274a51 /mm/filemap.c
parent11c231a962c740b3216eb6565149ae5a7944cba7 (diff)
parentd210baf53b699fc61aa891c177b71d7082d3b957 (diff)
Merge branch 'linus' into x86/x2apic
Conflicts: arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cyrix.c include/asm-x86/cpufeature.h Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/filemap.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/filemap.c11
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index 54e96865085..876bc595d0f 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -2129,13 +2129,20 @@ generic_file_direct_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
* After a write we want buffered reads to be sure to go to disk to get
* the new data. We invalidate clean cached page from the region we're
* about to write. We do this *before* the write so that we can return
- * -EIO without clobbering -EIOCBQUEUED from ->direct_IO().
+ * without clobbering -EIOCBQUEUED from ->direct_IO().
*/
if (mapping->nrpages) {
written = invalidate_inode_pages2_range(mapping,
pos >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT, end);
- if (written)
+ /*
+ * If a page can not be invalidated, return 0 to fall back
+ * to buffered write.
+ */
+ if (written) {
+ if (written == -EBUSY)
+ return 0;
goto out;
+ }
}
written = mapping->a_ops->direct_IO(WRITE, iocb, iov, pos, *nr_segs);