Tell the page allocator that pages allocated for a buffered write are expected to become dirty soon. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/btrfs/file.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/btrfs/file.c b/fs/btrfs/file.c index e7872e4..ea1b892 100644 --- a/fs/btrfs/file.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/file.c @@ -1084,7 +1084,7 @@ static noinline int prepare_pages(struct btrfs_root *root, struct file *file, again: for (i = 0; i < num_pages; i++) { pages[i] = find_or_create_page(inode->i_mapping, index + i, - GFP_NOFS); + GFP_NOFS | __GFP_WRITE); if (!pages[i]) { faili = i - 1; err = -ENOMEM; -- 1.7.6 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>