linux-kernel - [PATCH 4/9] Unionfs: writepage updates

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Message-Id: <11949486301913-git-send-email-ezk@cs.sunysb.edu>
Date:	Tue, 13 Nov 2007 05:10:23 -0500
From:	Erez Zadok <ezk@...sunysb.edu>
To:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	viro@....linux.org.uk, hch@...radead.org,
	Erez Zadok <ezk@...sunysb.edu>, Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4/9] Unionfs: writepage updates

Don't set/reset the PageUptodate flag on our page.  Call flush_dcache_page
on the lower page after copy_highpage, and set it uptodate.  Call
set_page_dirty right before clear_page_dirty_for_io.

CC: Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <ezk@...sunysb.edu>
---
 fs/unionfs/mmap.c |   10 ++++++----
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/unionfs/mmap.c b/fs/unionfs/mmap.c
index 4b00b98..468dc61 100644
--- a/fs/unionfs/mmap.c
+++ b/fs/unionfs/mmap.c
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ static int unionfs_writepage(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc)
 	struct address_space *lower_mapping; /* lower inode mapping */
 	gfp_t mask;
 
+	BUG_ON(!PageUptodate(page));
 	inode = page->mapping->host;
 	lower_inode = unionfs_lower_inode(inode);
 	lower_mapping = lower_inode->i_mapping;
@@ -53,6 +54,8 @@ static int unionfs_writepage(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc)
 
 	/* copy page data from our upper page to the lower page */
 	copy_highpage(lower_page, page);
+	flush_dcache_page(lower_page);
+	SetPageUptodate(lower_page);
 
 	/*
 	 * Call lower writepage (expects locked page).  However, if we are
@@ -68,12 +71,11 @@ static int unionfs_writepage(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc)
 		goto out_release;
 	}
 	BUG_ON(!lower_mapping->a_ops->writepage);
+	set_page_dirty(lower_page);
 	clear_page_dirty_for_io(lower_page); /* emulate VFS behavior */
 	err = lower_mapping->a_ops->writepage(lower_page, wbc);
-	if (err < 0) {
-		ClearPageUptodate(page);
+	if (err < 0)
 		goto out_release;
-	}
 
 	/*
 	 * Lower file systems such as ramfs and tmpfs, may return
@@ -97,7 +99,7 @@ static int unionfs_writepage(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc)
 	}
 
 	/* all is well */
-	SetPageUptodate(page);
+
 	/* lower mtimes have changed: update ours */
 	unionfs_copy_attr_times(inode);
 
-- 
1.5.2.2

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