The patch titled Subject: page_writeback: cleanup mess around cancel_dirty_page() has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was page_writeback-cleanup-mess-around-cancel_dirty_page.patch This patch was dropped because other changes were merged, which wrecked this patch ------------------------------------------------------ From: Konstantin Khebnikov <khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: page_writeback: cleanup mess around cancel_dirty_page() This patch replaces cancel_dirty_page() with helper account_page_cleared() which only updates counters. It's called from delete_from_page_cache() and from try_to_free_buffers() (hack for ext3). Page is locked in both cases. Hugetlbfs has no dirty pages accounting, ClearPageDirty() is enough here. cancel_dirty_page() in nfs_wb_page_cancel() is redundant. This is helper for nfs_invalidate_page() and it's called only in case complete invalidation. Open-coded kludge at the end of __delete_from_page_cache() is redundant too. This mess was started in v2.6.20, after commit 3e67c09 ("truncate: clear page dirtiness before running try_to_free_buffers()") reverted back in v2.6.25 by commit a2b3456 ("Fix dirty page accounting leak with ext3 data=journal"). Custom fixes were introduced between them. NFS in in v2.6.23 in commit 1b3b4a1 ("NFS: Fix a write request leak in nfs_invalidate_page()"). Kludge __delete_from_page_cache() in v2.6.24, commit 3a692790 ("Do dirty page accounting when removing a page from the page cache"). It seems safe to leave dirty flag set on truncated page, free_pages_check() will clear it before returning page into buddy allocator. Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khebnikov <khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- index a260e99..ff5cab2 100644 Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/include/linux/lustre_patchless_compat.h | 1 fs/buffer.c | 4 - fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c | 2 fs/nfs/write.c | 5 - include/linux/mm.h | 2 include/linux/page-flags.h | 2 mm/filemap.c | 15 ---- mm/page-writeback.c | 19 ++++++ mm/truncate.c | 31 ---------- 9 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/include/linux/lustre_patchless_compat.h~page_writeback-cleanup-mess-around-cancel_dirty_page drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/include/linux/lustre_patchless_compat.h --- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/include/linux/lustre_patchless_compat.h~page_writeback-cleanup-mess-around-cancel_dirty_page +++ a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/include/linux/lustre_patchless_compat.h @@ -55,7 +55,6 @@ truncate_complete_page(struct address_sp if (PagePrivate(page)) page->mapping->a_ops->invalidatepage(page, 0, PAGE_CACHE_SIZE); - cancel_dirty_page(page, PAGE_SIZE); ClearPageMappedToDisk(page); ll_delete_from_page_cache(page); } diff -puN fs/buffer.c~page_writeback-cleanup-mess-around-cancel_dirty_page fs/buffer.c --- a/fs/buffer.c~page_writeback-cleanup-mess-around-cancel_dirty_page +++ a/fs/buffer.c @@ -3243,8 +3243,8 @@ int try_to_free_buffers(struct page *pag * to synchronise against __set_page_dirty_buffers and prevent the * dirty bit from being lost. */ - if (ret) - cancel_dirty_page(page, PAGE_CACHE_SIZE); + if (ret && TestClearPageDirty(page)) + account_page_cleared(page, mapping); spin_unlock(&mapping->private_lock); out: if (buffers_to_free) { diff -puN fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c~page_writeback-cleanup-mess-around-cancel_dirty_page fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c --- a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c~page_writeback-cleanup-mess-around-cancel_dirty_page +++ a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c @@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ static int hugetlbfs_write_end(struct fi static void truncate_huge_page(struct page *page) { - cancel_dirty_page(page, /* No IO accounting for huge pages? */0); + ClearPageDirty(page); ClearPageUptodate(page); delete_from_page_cache(page); } diff -puN fs/nfs/write.c~page_writeback-cleanup-mess-around-cancel_dirty_page fs/nfs/write.c --- a/fs/nfs/write.c~page_writeback-cleanup-mess-around-cancel_dirty_page +++ a/fs/nfs/write.c @@ -1811,11 +1811,6 @@ int nfs_wb_page_cancel(struct inode *ino * request from the inode / page_private pointer and * release it */ nfs_inode_remove_request(req); - /* - * In case nfs_inode_remove_request has marked the - * page as being dirty - */ - cancel_dirty_page(page, PAGE_CACHE_SIZE); nfs_unlock_and_release_request(req); } diff -puN include/linux/mm.h~page_writeback-cleanup-mess-around-cancel_dirty_page include/linux/mm.h --- a/include/linux/mm.h~page_writeback-cleanup-mess-around-cancel_dirty_page +++ a/include/linux/mm.h @@ -1269,9 +1269,11 @@ int __set_page_dirty_no_writeback(struct int redirty_page_for_writepage(struct writeback_control *wbc, struct page *page); void account_page_dirtied(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping); +void account_page_cleared(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping); int set_page_dirty(struct page *page); int set_page_dirty_lock(struct page *page); int clear_page_dirty_for_io(struct page *page); + int get_cmdline(struct task_struct *task, char *buffer, int buflen); /* Is the vma a continuation of the stack vma above it? */ diff -puN include/linux/page-flags.h~page_writeback-cleanup-mess-around-cancel_dirty_page include/linux/page-flags.h --- a/include/linux/page-flags.h~page_writeback-cleanup-mess-around-cancel_dirty_page +++ a/include/linux/page-flags.h @@ -323,8 +323,6 @@ static inline void SetPageUptodate(struc CLEARPAGEFLAG(Uptodate, uptodate) -extern void cancel_dirty_page(struct page *page, unsigned int account_size); - int test_clear_page_writeback(struct page *page); int __test_set_page_writeback(struct page *page, bool keep_write); diff -puN mm/filemap.c~page_writeback-cleanup-mess-around-cancel_dirty_page mm/filemap.c --- a/mm/filemap.c~page_writeback-cleanup-mess-around-cancel_dirty_page +++ a/mm/filemap.c @@ -201,18 +201,6 @@ void __delete_from_page_cache(struct pag if (PageSwapBacked(page)) __dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_SHMEM); BUG_ON(page_mapped(page)); - - /* - * Some filesystems seem to re-dirty the page even after - * the VM has canceled the dirty bit (eg ext3 journaling). - * - * Fix it up by doing a final dirty accounting check after - * having removed the page entirely. - */ - if (PageDirty(page) && mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) { - dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_DIRTY); - dec_bdi_stat(mapping->backing_dev_info, BDI_RECLAIMABLE); - } } /** @@ -230,6 +218,9 @@ void delete_from_page_cache(struct page BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page)); + if (PageDirty(page)) + account_page_cleared(page, mapping); + freepage = mapping->a_ops->freepage; spin_lock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock); __delete_from_page_cache(page, NULL); diff -puN mm/page-writeback.c~page_writeback-cleanup-mess-around-cancel_dirty_page mm/page-writeback.c --- a/mm/page-writeback.c~page_writeback-cleanup-mess-around-cancel_dirty_page +++ a/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -2106,6 +2106,25 @@ void account_page_dirtied(struct page *p EXPORT_SYMBOL(account_page_dirtied); /* + * Helper function for deaccounting dirty page without doing writeback. + * Doing this should *normally* only ever be done when a page + * is truncated, and is not actually mapped anywhere at all. However, + * fs/buffer.c does this when it notices that somebody has cleaned + * out all the buffers on a page without actually doing it through + * the VM. Can you say "ext3 is horribly ugly"? Tought you could. + */ +void account_page_cleared(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping) +{ + if (mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) { + dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_DIRTY); + dec_bdi_stat(mapping->backing_dev_info, + BDI_RECLAIMABLE); + task_io_account_cancelled_write(PAGE_CACHE_SIZE); + } +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(account_page_cleared); + +/* * For address_spaces which do not use buffers. Just tag the page as dirty in * its radix tree. * diff -puN mm/truncate.c~page_writeback-cleanup-mess-around-cancel_dirty_page mm/truncate.c --- a/mm/truncate.c~page_writeback-cleanup-mess-around-cancel_dirty_page +++ a/mm/truncate.c @@ -93,35 +93,6 @@ void do_invalidatepage(struct page *page } /* - * This cancels just the dirty bit on the kernel page itself, it - * does NOT actually remove dirty bits on any mmap's that may be - * around. It also leaves the page tagged dirty, so any sync - * activity will still find it on the dirty lists, and in particular, - * clear_page_dirty_for_io() will still look at the dirty bits in - * the VM. - * - * Doing this should *normally* only ever be done when a page - * is truncated, and is not actually mapped anywhere at all. However, - * fs/buffer.c does this when it notices that somebody has cleaned - * out all the buffers on a page without actually doing it through - * the VM. Can you say "ext3 is horribly ugly"? Tought you could. - */ -void cancel_dirty_page(struct page *page, unsigned int account_size) -{ - if (TestClearPageDirty(page)) { - struct address_space *mapping = page->mapping; - if (mapping && mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) { - dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_DIRTY); - dec_bdi_stat(mapping->backing_dev_info, - BDI_RECLAIMABLE); - if (account_size) - task_io_account_cancelled_write(account_size); - } - } -} -EXPORT_SYMBOL(cancel_dirty_page); - -/* * If truncate cannot remove the fs-private metadata from the page, the page * becomes orphaned. It will be left on the LRU and may even be mapped into * user pagetables if we're racing with filemap_fault(). @@ -140,8 +111,6 @@ truncate_complete_page(struct address_sp if (page_has_private(page)) do_invalidatepage(page, 0, PAGE_CACHE_SIZE); - cancel_dirty_page(page, PAGE_CACHE_SIZE); - ClearPageMappedToDisk(page); delete_from_page_cache(page); return 0; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are page_writeback-put-account_page_redirty-after-set_page_dirty.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html