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@@ -219,8 +219,12 @@ This may also be done to avoid internal deadlocks, but rarely.
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If the filesytem is called for sync then it must wait on any
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in-progress I/O and then start new I/O.
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-The filesystem should unlock the page synchronously, before returning
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-to the caller.
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+The filesystem should unlock the page synchronously, before returning to the
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+caller, unless ->writepage() returns special WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE
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+value. WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE means that page cannot really be written out
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+currently, and VM should stop calling ->writepage() on this page for some
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+time. VM does this by moving page to the head of the active list, hence the
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+name.
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Unless the filesystem is going to redirty_page_for_writepage(), unlock the page
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and return zero, writepage *must* run set_page_writeback() against the page,
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