[PATCH] invalidate: remove_mapping() fix
If remove_mapping() failed to remove the page from its mapping, don't go and
mark it not uptodate! Makes kernel go dead.
(Actually, I don't think the ClearPageUptodate is needed there at all).
Says Nick Piggin:
"Right, it isn't needed because at this point the page is guaranteed
by remove_mapping to have no references (except us) and cannot pick
up any new ones because it is removed from pagecache.
We can delete it."
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index eca7031..af73c14 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -378,6 +378,12 @@
return PAGE_CLEAN;
}
+/*
+ * Attempt to detach a locked page from its ->mapping. If it is dirty or if
+ * someone else has a ref on the page, abort and return 0. If it was
+ * successfully detached, return 1. Assumes the caller has a single ref on
+ * this page.
+ */
int remove_mapping(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *page)
{
BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));