On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 09:24:52AM -0700, Jens Axboe wrote:
> +/*
> + * Start writeback on the pages in pgs[], and then try and remove those pages
> + * from the page cached. Used with RWF_UNCACHED.
> + */
> +void write_drop_cached_pages(struct page **pgs, struct address_space *mapping,
> + unsigned *nr)
It would seem more natural to use a pagevec instead of pgs/nr.
> +{
> + loff_t start, end;
> + int i;
> +
> + end = 0;
> + start = LLONG_MAX;
> + for (i = 0; i < *nr; i++) {
> + struct page *page = pgs[i];
> + loff_t off;
> +
> + off = (loff_t) page_to_index(page) << PAGE_SHIFT;
Isn't that page_offset()?
> + __filemap_fdatawrite_range(mapping, start, end, WB_SYNC_NONE);
> +
> + for (i = 0; i < *nr; i++) {
> + struct page *page = pgs[i];
> +
> + lock_page(page);
> + if (page->mapping == mapping) {
So you're protecting against the page being freed and reallocated to a
different file, but not against the page being freed and reallocated to
a location in the same file which is outside (start, end)?
