linux-kernel - [patch 0/3 resend] mm: close race between dirtying and truncation

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Date:	Tue, 16 Dec 2014 11:18:08 -0500
From:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	Michel Lespinasse <walken@...gle.com>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [patch 0/3 resend] mm: close race between dirtying and truncation

Hi Andrew,

it looks like these 3 patches fell on the floor.  The first one is a
bug fix that closes a race condition between truncation and dirtying
from do_wp_page(), which can result in a dirty-accounting error.  #2
and #3 simplify the code in the area.  Please consider them for 3.19.

Thanks!

 include/linux/writeback.h |  1 -
 mm/memory.c               | 54 ++++++++++++++++++---------------------------
 mm/page-writeback.c       | 43 ++++++++++--------------------------
 3 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 64 deletions(-)

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