linux-kernel - [PATCH v6 45/51] mm: Support tail pages in wait_for_stable

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Date:   Wed, 10 Jun 2020 13:13:39 -0700
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@...radead.org>,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v6 45/51] mm: Support tail pages in wait_for_stable_page

From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@...radead.org>

page->mapping is undefined for tail pages, so operate exclusively on
the head page.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@...radead.org>
---
 mm/page-writeback.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 28b3e7a67565..1b358aac065f 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -2851,6 +2851,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(wait_on_page_writeback);
  */
 void wait_for_stable_page(struct page *page)
 {
+	page = thp_head(page);
 	if (bdi_cap_stable_pages_required(inode_to_bdi(page->mapping->host)))
 		wait_on_page_writeback(page);
 }
-- 
2.26.2