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| -rw-r--r-- | fs/buffer.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c index 460f1c43238e..1ad674fd348c 100644 --- a/fs/buffer.c +++ b/fs/buffer.c @@ -2844,7 +2844,6 @@ int try_to_free_buffers(struct page *page) spin_lock(&mapping->private_lock); ret = drop_buffers(page, &buffers_to_free); - spin_unlock(&mapping->private_lock); /* * If the filesystem writes its buffers by hand (eg ext3) @@ -2855,9 +2854,14 @@ int try_to_free_buffers(struct page *page) * Also, during truncate, discard_buffer will have marked all * the page's buffers clean. We discover that here and clean * the page also. + * + * private_lock must be held over this entire operation in order + * to synchronise against __set_page_dirty_buffers and prevent the + * dirty bit from being lost. */ if (ret) cancel_dirty_page(page, PAGE_CACHE_SIZE); + spin_unlock(&mapping->private_lock); out: if (buffers_to_free) { struct buffer_head *bh = buffers_to_free; |