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fb_defio: redo fix for non-dirty ptes

As pointed by Nick Piggin, ->page_mkwrite provides a way to keep a page
locked until the associated PTE is marked dirty.

Re-implement the fix by using this mechanism.

Signed-off-by: Albert Herranz <albert_herranz@yahoo.es>
Acked-by: Jaya Kumar <jayakumar.lkml@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Albert Herranz 15 years ago
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1 changed files with 11 additions and 1 deletions
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      drivers/video/fb_defio.c

+ 11 - 1
drivers/video/fb_defio.c

@@ -100,6 +100,16 @@ static int fb_deferred_io_mkwrite(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	/* protect against the workqueue changing the page list */
 	mutex_lock(&fbdefio->lock);
 
+	/*
+	 * We want the page to remain locked from ->page_mkwrite until
+	 * the PTE is marked dirty to avoid page_mkclean() being called
+	 * before the PTE is updated, which would leave the page ignored
+	 * by defio.
+	 * Do this by locking the page here and informing the caller
+	 * about it with VM_FAULT_LOCKED.
+	 */
+	lock_page(page);
+
 	/* we loop through the pagelist before adding in order
 	to keep the pagelist sorted */
 	list_for_each_entry(cur, &fbdefio->pagelist, lru) {
@@ -121,7 +131,7 @@ page_already_added:
 
 	/* come back after delay to process the deferred IO */
 	schedule_delayed_work(&info->deferred_work, fbdefio->delay);
-	return 0;
+	return VM_FAULT_LOCKED;
 }
 
 static const struct vm_operations_struct fb_deferred_io_vm_ops = {