linux-kernel - [patch 4/4] Btrfs: pass __GFP_WRITE for buffered write page allocations

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Message-Id: <1316526315-16801-5-git-send-email-jweiner@redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 20 Sep 2011 15:45:15 +0200
From:	Johannes Weiner <jweiner@...hat.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>,
	Chris Mason <chris.mason@...cle.com>,
	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
	Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>, xfs@....sgi.com,
	linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [patch 4/4] Btrfs: pass __GFP_WRITE for buffered write page allocations

Tell the page allocator that pages allocated for a buffered write are
expected to become dirty soon.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@...hat.com>
---
 fs/btrfs/file.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/file.c b/fs/btrfs/file.c
index e7872e4..ea1b892 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/file.c
@@ -1084,7 +1084,7 @@ static noinline int prepare_pages(struct btrfs_root *root, struct file *file,
 again:
 	for (i = 0; i < num_pages; i++) {
 		pages[i] = find_or_create_page(inode->i_mapping, index + i,
-					       GFP_NOFS);
+					       GFP_NOFS | __GFP_WRITE);
 		if (!pages[i]) {
 			faili = i - 1;
 			err = -ENOMEM;
-- 
1.7.6

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