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-rw-r--r--mm/rmap.c21
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
index 23295f65ae4..30e44cb236b 100644
--- a/mm/rmap.c
+++ b/mm/rmap.c
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@
#include <linux/mmu_notifier.h>
#include <linux/migrate.h>
#include <linux/hugetlb.h>
+#include <linux/backing-dev.h>
#include <asm/tlbflush.h>
@@ -936,11 +937,8 @@ int page_mkclean(struct page *page)
if (page_mapped(page)) {
struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
- if (mapping) {
+ if (mapping)
ret = page_mkclean_file(mapping, page);
- if (page_test_and_clear_dirty(page_to_pfn(page), 1))
- ret = 1;
- }
}
return ret;
@@ -1121,6 +1119,8 @@ void page_add_file_rmap(struct page *page)
*/
void page_remove_rmap(struct page *page)
{
+ struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
+
/* page still mapped by someone else? */
if (!atomic_add_negative(-1, &page->_mapcount))
return;
@@ -1131,8 +1131,19 @@ void page_remove_rmap(struct page *page)
* this if the page is anon, so about to be freed; but perhaps
* not if it's in swapcache - there might be another pte slot
* containing the swap entry, but page not yet written to swap.
+ *
+ * And we can skip it on file pages, so long as the filesystem
+ * participates in dirty tracking; but need to catch shm and tmpfs
+ * and ramfs pages which have been modified since creation by read
+ * fault.
+ *
+ * Note that mapping must be decided above, before decrementing
+ * mapcount (which luckily provides a barrier): once page is unmapped,
+ * it could be truncated and page->mapping reset to NULL at any moment.
+ * Note also that we are relying on page_mapping(page) to set mapping
+ * to &swapper_space when PageSwapCache(page).
*/
- if ((!PageAnon(page) || PageSwapCache(page)) &&
+ if (mapping && !mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping) &&
page_test_and_clear_dirty(page_to_pfn(page), 1))
set_page_dirty(page);
/*