On Tuesday 16 October 2007 08:40, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> The problem: When we are trying to free buffers try_to_free_buffers()
> will look at ramdisk pages with clean buffer heads and remove the
> dirty bit from the page. Resulting in ramdisk pages with data that get
> removed from the page cache. Ouch!
>
> Buffer heads appear on ramdisk pages when a filesystem calls
> __getblk() which through a series of function calls eventually calls
> init_page_buffers().
>
> So to fix the mismatch between buffer head and page state this patch
> modifies init_page_buffers() to transfer the dirty bit from the page to
> the buffer heads like we currently do for the uptodate bit.
>
> This patch is safe as only __getblk calls init_page_buffers, and
> there are only two implementations of block devices cached in the
> page cache. The generic implementation in block_dev.c and the
> implementation in rd.c.
>
> The generic implementation of block devices always does everything
> in terms of buffer heads so it always has buffer heads allocated
> before a page is marked dirty so this change does not affect it.
This is probably a good idea. Was this causing the reiserfs problems?
If so, I think we should be concentrating on what the real problem
is with reiserfs... (or at least why this so obviously correct
looking patch is wrong).
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <[email protected]>
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <[email protected]>
> ---
> fs/buffer.c | 3 +++
> 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
> index 75b51df..8b87beb 100644
> --- a/fs/buffer.c
> +++ b/fs/buffer.c
> @@ -972,6 +972,7 @@ init_page_buffers(struct page *page, struct
> block_device *bdev, struct buffer_head *head = page_buffers(page);
> struct buffer_head *bh = head;
> int uptodate = PageUptodate(page);
> + int dirty = PageDirty(page);
>
> do {
> if (!buffer_mapped(bh)) {
> @@ -980,6 +981,8 @@ init_page_buffers(struct page *page, struct
> block_device *bdev, bh->b_blocknr = block;
> if (uptodate)
> set_buffer_uptodate(bh);
> + if (dirty)
> + set_buffer_dirty(bh);
> set_buffer_mapped(bh);
> }
> block++;
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