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| -rw-r--r-- | fs/ext4/super.c | 20 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c index a3321bf22311..e5ab520724da 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/super.c +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c @@ -907,6 +907,25 @@ static struct dentry *ext4_fh_to_parent(struct super_block *sb, struct fid *fid, ext4_nfs_get_inode); } +/* + * Try to release metadata pages (indirect blocks, directories) which are + * mapped via the block device. Since these pages could have journal heads + * which would prevent try_to_free_buffers() from freeing them, we must use + * jbd2 layer's try_to_free_buffers() function to release them. + */ +static int bdev_try_to_free_page(struct super_block *sb, struct page *page, gfp_t wait) +{ + journal_t *journal = EXT4_SB(sb)->s_journal; + + WARN_ON(PageChecked(page)); + if (!page_has_buffers(page)) + return 0; + if (journal) + return jbd2_journal_try_to_free_buffers(journal, page, + wait & ~__GFP_WAIT); + return try_to_free_buffers(page); +} + #ifdef CONFIG_QUOTA #define QTYPE2NAME(t) ((t) == USRQUOTA ? "user" : "group") #define QTYPE2MOPT(on, t) ((t) == USRQUOTA?((on)##USRJQUOTA):((on)##GRPJQUOTA)) @@ -971,6 +990,7 @@ static const struct super_operations ext4_sops = { .quota_read = ext4_quota_read, .quota_write = ext4_quota_write, #endif + .bdev_try_to_free_page = bdev_try_to_free_page, }; static const struct export_operations ext4_export_ops = { |