linux/Documentation/filesystems
Trond Myklebust e3db7691e9 [PATCH] NFS: Fix race in nfs_release_page()
NFS: Fix race in nfs_release_page()

    invalidate_inode_pages2() may find the dirty bit has been set on a page
    owing to the fact that the page may still be mapped after it was locked.
    Only after the call to unmap_mapping_range() are we sure that the page
    can no longer be dirtied.
    In order to fix this, NFS has hooked the releasepage() method and tries
    to write the page out between the call to unmap_mapping_range() and the
    call to remove_mapping(). This, however leads to deadlocks in the page
    reclaim code, where the page may be locked without holding a reference
    to the inode or dentry.

    Fix is to add a new address_space_operation, launder_page(), which will
    attempt to write out a dirty page without releasing the page lock.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

    Also, the bare SetPageDirty() can skew all sort of accounting leading to
    other nasties.

[akpm@osdl.org: cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2007-01-11 18:18:21 -08:00
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configfs Fix typos in /Documentation : 'U-Z' 2006-11-30 04:58:40 +01:00
00-INDEX [PATCH] Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt 2006-10-11 11:14:19 -07:00
9p.txt
Exporting
Locking [PATCH] NFS: Fix race in nfs_release_page() 2007-01-11 18:18:21 -08:00
adfs.txt Fix typos in /Documentation : 'U-Z' 2006-11-30 04:58:40 +01:00
affs.txt
afs.txt
automount-support.txt
befs.txt Fix typos in Documentation/: 'Q'-'R' 2006-10-03 22:54:15 +02:00
bfs.txt [PATCH] update Tigran's email addresses 2006-12-13 09:05:53 -08:00
cifs.txt
coda.txt
cramfs.txt
dentry-locking.txt
directory-locking Documentation: remove duplicated words 2006-10-03 22:57:56 +02:00
dlmfs.txt Fix typos in Documentation/: 'D'-'E' 2006-10-03 22:47:42 +02:00
ext2.txt Fix typos in Documentation/: 'N'-'P' 2006-10-03 22:52:05 +02:00
ext3.txt [PATCH] ext3: Add "-o bh" option 2006-06-26 09:58:20 -07:00
ext4.txt [PATCH] Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt 2006-10-11 11:14:19 -07:00
files.txt Documentation: remove duplicated words 2006-10-03 22:57:56 +02:00
fuse.txt [PATCH] fuse: fix typo 2006-12-30 10:56:45 -08:00
gfs2.txt
hfs.txt
hpfs.txt Fix typos in /Documentation : 'U-Z' 2006-11-30 04:58:40 +01:00
inotify.txt
isofs.txt
jfs.txt
ncpfs.txt
ntfs.txt Fix typos in /Documentation : Misc 2006-11-30 05:21:10 +01:00
ocfs2.txt ocfs2: update mount option documentation 2006-12-07 17:48:41 -08:00
porting
proc.txt Fix typos in /Documentation : 'U-Z' 2006-11-30 04:58:40 +01:00
ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt [PATCH] Initramfs docs update 2006-06-25 10:01:21 -07:00
relay.txt [PATCH] Documentation update for relay interface 2006-08-27 11:01:31 -07:00
romfs.txt
smbfs.txt
spufs.txt Fix typos in /Documentation : 'U-Z' 2006-11-30 04:58:40 +01:00
sysfs-pci.txt
sysfs.txt Fix typos in Documentation/: 'D'-'E' 2006-10-03 22:47:42 +02:00
sysv-fs.txt [PATCH] fs/sysv/: doc cleanup 2006-12-07 08:39:44 -08:00
tmpfs.txt Documentation: remove duplicated words 2006-10-03 22:57:56 +02:00
udf.txt [PATCH] Update udf documentation to reflect current state of read/write support 2006-11-16 11:43:38 -08:00
ufs.txt
vfat.txt Documentation: remove duplicated words 2006-10-03 22:57:56 +02:00
vfs.txt Documentation: remove duplicated words 2006-10-03 22:57:56 +02:00
xfs.txt
xip.txt