On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 08:01:31AM +0100, Nick Piggin wrote: > Thanks for the review, I'll post an incremental patch in a sec. Index: linux-2.6/drivers/block/brd.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/block/brd.c +++ linux-2.6/drivers/block/brd.c @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ struct brd_device { */ static struct page *brd_lookup_page(struct brd_device *brd, sector_t sector) { - unsigned long idx; + pgoff_t idx; struct page *page; /* @@ -87,13 +87,17 @@ static struct page *brd_lookup_page(stru */ static struct page *brd_insert_page(struct brd_device *brd, sector_t sector) { - unsigned long idx; + pgoff_t idx; struct page *page; page = brd_lookup_page(brd, sector); if (page) return page; + /* + * Must use NOIO because we don't want to recurse back into the + * block or filesystem layers from page reclaim. + */ page = alloc_page(GFP_NOIO | __GFP_HIGHMEM | __GFP_ZERO); if (!page) return NULL; @@ -148,6 +152,11 @@ static void brd_free_pages(struct brd_de pos++; + /* + * This assumes radix_tree_gang_lookup always returns as + * many pages as possible. If the radix-tree code changes, + * so will this have to. + */ } while (nr_pages == FREE_BATCH); } @@ -159,7 +168,7 @@ static int copy_to_brd_setup(struct brd_ unsigned int offset = (sector & (PAGE_SECTORS-1)) << SECTOR_SHIFT; size_t copy; - copy = min((unsigned long)n, PAGE_SIZE - offset); + copy = min_t(size_t, n, PAGE_SIZE - offset); if (!brd_insert_page(brd, sector)) return -ENOMEM; if (copy < n) { @@ -181,7 +190,7 @@ static void copy_to_brd(struct brd_devic unsigned int offset = (sector & (PAGE_SECTORS-1)) << SECTOR_SHIFT; size_t copy; - copy = min((unsigned long)n, PAGE_SIZE - offset); + copy = min_t(size_t, n, PAGE_SIZE - offset); page = brd_lookup_page(brd, sector); BUG_ON(!page); @@ -213,7 +222,7 @@ static void copy_from_brd(void *dst, str unsigned int offset = (sector & (PAGE_SECTORS-1)) << SECTOR_SHIFT; size_t copy; - copy = min((unsigned long)n, PAGE_SIZE - offset); + copy = min_t(size_t, n, PAGE_SIZE - offset); page = brd_lookup_page(brd, sector); if (page) { src = kmap_atomic(page, KM_USER1); @@ -318,6 +327,9 @@ static int brd_ioctl(struct inode *inode /* * Invalidate the cache first, so it isn't written * back to the device. + * + * Another thread might instantiate more buffercache here, + * but there is not much we can do to close that race. */ invalidate_bh_lrus(); truncate_inode_pages(bdev->bd_inode->i_mapping, 0); - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html