Get rid of some complex expressions from flow control statements, add a comment, remove some duplicate code. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx> --- Index: linux-2.6/mm/page-writeback.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/mm/page-writeback.c +++ linux-2.6/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -897,11 +897,14 @@ int write_cache_pages(struct address_spa cycled = 1; /* ignore range_cyclic tests */ } retry: - while (!done && (index <= end) && - (nr_pages = pagevec_lookup_tag(&pvec, mapping, &index, - PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY, - min(end - index, (pgoff_t)PAGEVEC_SIZE-1) + 1))) { - unsigned i; + while (!done && (index <= end)) { + int i; + + nr_pages = pagevec_lookup_tag(&pvec, mapping, &index, + PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY, + min(end - index, (pgoff_t)PAGEVEC_SIZE-1) + 1); + if (nr_pages == 0) + break; for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) { struct page *page = pvec.pages[i]; @@ -915,7 +918,16 @@ retry: */ lock_page(page); + /* + * Page truncated or invalidated. We can freely skip it + * then, even for data integrity operations: the page + * has disappeared concurrently, so there could be no + * real expectation of this data interity operation + * even if there is now a new, dirty page at the same + * pagecache address. + */ if (unlikely(page->mapping != mapping)) { +continue_unlock: unlock_page(page); continue; } @@ -923,18 +935,15 @@ retry: if (page->index > end) { /* Can't be range_cyclic: end == -1 there */ done = 1; - unlock_page(page); - continue; + goto continue_unlock; } if (wbc->sync_mode != WB_SYNC_NONE) wait_on_page_writeback(page); if (PageWriteback(page) || - !clear_page_dirty_for_io(page)) { - unlock_page(page); - continue; - } + !clear_page_dirty_for_io(page)) + goto continue_unlock; ret = (*writepage)(page, wbc, data); if (unlikely(ret)) { @@ -947,7 +956,8 @@ retry: } } if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_NONE) { - if (--wbc->nr_to_write <= 0) + wbc->nr_to_write--; + if (wbc->nr_to_write <= 0) done = 1; } if (wbc->nonblocking && bdi_write_congested(bdi)) { -- -- 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