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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-09-24 07:53:22 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-09-24 07:53:22 -0700 |
| commit | db16826367fefcb0ddb93d76b66adc52eb4e6339 (patch) | |
| tree | 626224c1eb1eb79c522714591f208b4fdbdcd9d4 /mm/page-writeback.c | |
| parent | cd6045138ed1bb5d8773e940d51c34318eef3ef2 (diff) | |
| parent | 465fdd97cbe16ef8727221857e96ef62dd352017 (diff) | |
| download | linux-db16826367fefcb0ddb93d76b66adc52eb4e6339.tar.bz2 | |
Merge branch 'hwpoison' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6
* 'hwpoison' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6: (21 commits)
HWPOISON: Enable error_remove_page on btrfs
HWPOISON: Add simple debugfs interface to inject hwpoison on arbitary PFNs
HWPOISON: Add madvise() based injector for hardware poisoned pages v4
HWPOISON: Enable error_remove_page for NFS
HWPOISON: Enable .remove_error_page for migration aware file systems
HWPOISON: The high level memory error handler in the VM v7
HWPOISON: Add PR_MCE_KILL prctl to control early kill behaviour per process
HWPOISON: shmem: call set_page_dirty() with locked page
HWPOISON: Define a new error_remove_page address space op for async truncation
HWPOISON: Add invalidate_inode_page
HWPOISON: Refactor truncate to allow direct truncating of page v2
HWPOISON: check and isolate corrupted free pages v2
HWPOISON: Handle hardware poisoned pages in try_to_unmap
HWPOISON: Use bitmask/action code for try_to_unmap behaviour
HWPOISON: x86: Add VM_FAULT_HWPOISON handling to x86 page fault handler v2
HWPOISON: Add poison check to page fault handling
HWPOISON: Add basic support for poisoned pages in fault handler v3
HWPOISON: Add new SIGBUS error codes for hardware poison signals
HWPOISON: Add support for poison swap entries v2
HWPOISON: Export some rmap vma locking to outside world
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Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page-writeback.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/page-writeback.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c index be197f71b096..d99664e8607e 100644 --- a/mm/page-writeback.c +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -1149,6 +1149,13 @@ int redirty_page_for_writepage(struct writeback_control *wbc, struct page *page) EXPORT_SYMBOL(redirty_page_for_writepage); /* + * Dirty a page. + * + * For pages with a mapping this should be done under the page lock + * for the benefit of asynchronous memory errors who prefer a consistent + * dirty state. This rule can be broken in some special cases, + * but should be better not to. + * * If the mapping doesn't provide a set_page_dirty a_op, then * just fall through and assume that it wants buffer_heads. */ |