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authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2007-10-08 18:54:37 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-10-08 12:58:14 -0700
commita200ee182a016752464a12cb2e8762e48254bb09 (patch)
tree7b273f002625a4c368f7b20b144990f7f4f81df9 /mm/memory.c
parent3eb215de26e6e94bf5fed9cb77230c383b30e53b (diff)
downloadlinux-a200ee182a016752464a12cb2e8762e48254bb09.tar.gz
mm: set_page_dirty_balance() vs ->page_mkwrite()
All the current page_mkwrite() implementations also set the page dirty. Which
results in the set_page_dirty_balance() call to _not_ call balance, because the
page is already found dirty.

This allows us to dirty a _lot_ of pages without ever hitting
balance_dirty_pages().  Not good (tm).

Force a balance call if ->page_mkwrite() was successful.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/memory.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/memory.c9
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index c0e7741a98de..f82b359b2745 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -1639,6 +1639,7 @@ static int do_wp_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	struct page *old_page, *new_page;
 	pte_t entry;
 	int reuse = 0, ret = 0;
+	int page_mkwrite = 0;
 	struct page *dirty_page = NULL;
 
 	old_page = vm_normal_page(vma, address, orig_pte);
@@ -1687,6 +1688,8 @@ static int do_wp_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 			page_cache_release(old_page);
 			if (!pte_same(*page_table, orig_pte))
 				goto unlock;
+
+			page_mkwrite = 1;
 		}
 		dirty_page = old_page;
 		get_page(dirty_page);
@@ -1774,7 +1777,7 @@ unlock:
 		 * do_no_page is protected similarly.
 		 */
 		wait_on_page_locked(dirty_page);
-		set_page_dirty_balance(dirty_page);
+		set_page_dirty_balance(dirty_page, page_mkwrite);
 		put_page(dirty_page);
 	}
 	return ret;
@@ -2322,6 +2325,7 @@ static int __do_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	struct page *dirty_page = NULL;
 	struct vm_fault vmf;
 	int ret;
+	int page_mkwrite = 0;
 
 	vmf.virtual_address = (void __user *)(address & PAGE_MASK);
 	vmf.pgoff = pgoff;
@@ -2398,6 +2402,7 @@ static int __do_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 					anon = 1; /* no anon but release vmf.page */
 					goto out;
 				}
+				page_mkwrite = 1;
 			}
 		}
 
@@ -2453,7 +2458,7 @@ out_unlocked:
 	if (anon)
 		page_cache_release(vmf.page);
 	else if (dirty_page) {
-		set_page_dirty_balance(dirty_page);
+		set_page_dirty_balance(dirty_page, page_mkwrite);
 		put_page(dirty_page);
 	}