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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2022-05-24 19:55:07 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2022-05-24 19:55:07 -0700
commitfdaf9a5840acaab18694a19e0eb0aa51162eeeed (patch)
treea027770138bccf9114cc83bafaa57accc13c91a6 /mm/page-writeback.c
parent8642174b52214dde4d8113f28fb4c9be5a432126 (diff)
parent516edb456f121e819d2130571004ed82f9566c4d (diff)
Merge tag 'folio-5.19' of git://git.infradead.org/users/willy/pagecache
Pull page cache updates from Matthew Wilcox: - Appoint myself page cache maintainer - Fix how scsicam uses the page cache - Use the memalloc_nofs_save() API to replace AOP_FLAG_NOFS - Remove the AOP flags entirely - Remove pagecache_write_begin() and pagecache_write_end() - Documentation updates - Convert several address_space operations to use folios: - is_dirty_writeback - readpage becomes read_folio - releasepage becomes release_folio - freepage becomes free_folio - Change filler_t to require a struct file pointer be the first argument like ->read_folio * tag 'folio-5.19' of git://git.infradead.org/users/willy/pagecache: (107 commits) nilfs2: Fix some kernel-doc comments Appoint myself page cache maintainer fs: Remove aops->freepage secretmem: Convert to free_folio nfs: Convert to free_folio orangefs: Convert to free_folio fs: Add free_folio address space operation fs: Convert drop_buffers() to use a folio fs: Change try_to_free_buffers() to take a folio jbd2: Convert release_buffer_page() to use a folio jbd2: Convert jbd2_journal_try_to_free_buffers to take a folio reiserfs: Convert release_buffer_page() to use a folio fs: Remove last vestiges of releasepage ubifs: Convert to release_folio reiserfs: Convert to release_folio orangefs: Convert to release_folio ocfs2: Convert to release_folio nilfs2: Remove comment about releasepage nfs: Convert to release_folio jfs: Convert to release_folio ...
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diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 7e2da284e427..fa1117db4610 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -2602,10 +2602,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(folio_redirty_for_writepage);
* folio_mark_dirty - Mark a folio as being modified.
* @folio: The folio.
*
- * For folios with a mapping this should be done with the folio lock held
- * for the benefit of asynchronous memory errors who prefer a consistent
- * dirty state. This rule can be broken in some special cases,
- * but should be better not to.
+ * The folio may not be truncated while this function is running.
+ * Holding the folio lock is sufficient to prevent truncation, but some
+ * callers cannot acquire a sleeping lock. These callers instead hold
+ * the page table lock for a page table which contains at least one page
+ * in this folio. Truncation will block on the page table lock as it
+ * unmaps pages before removing the folio from its mapping.
*
* Return: True if the folio was newly dirtied, false if it was already dirty.
*/