linux-stable/fs/ext4
Aneesh Kumar K.V f0e6c98593 ext4: Handle page without buffers in ext4_*_writepage()
It can happen that buffers are removed from the page before it gets
marked dirty and then is passed to writepage().  In writepage() we just
initialize the buffers and check whether they are mapped and non
delay. If they are mapped and non delay we write the page. Otherwise we
mark them dirty.  With this change we don't do block allocation at all
in ext4_*_write_page.

writepage() can get called under many condition and with a locking order
of journal_start -> lock_page, we should not try to allocate blocks in
writepage() which get called after taking page lock.  writepage() can
get called via shrink_page_list even with a journal handle which was
created for doing inode update.  For example when doing
ext4_da_write_begin we create a journal handle with credit 1 expecting a
i_disksize update for the inode. But ext4_da_write_begin can cause
shrink_page_list via _grab_page_cache. So having a valid handle via
ext4_journal_current_handle is not a guarantee that we can use the
handle for block allocation in writepage, since we shouldn't be using
credits that had been reserved for other updates.  That it could result
in we running out of credits when we update inodes.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-07-11 19:27:31 -04:00
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acl.c ext4: fix wrong gfp type under transaction 2008-04-29 22:02:02 -04:00
acl.h [PATCH] ext4: rename ext4 symbols to avoid duplication of ext3 symbols 2006-10-11 11:14:15 -07:00
balloc.c ext4: delayed allocation ENOSPC handling 2008-07-14 17:52:37 -04:00
bitmap.c ext4: move headers out of include/linux 2008-04-29 18:13:32 -04:00
dir.c ext4: delayed allocation ENOSPC handling 2008-07-14 17:52:37 -04:00
ext4.h ext4: delayed allocation ENOSPC handling 2008-07-14 17:52:37 -04:00
ext4_extents.h ext4: delayed allocation ENOSPC handling 2008-07-14 17:52:37 -04:00
ext4_i.h ext4: delayed allocation ENOSPC handling 2008-07-14 17:52:37 -04:00
ext4_jbd2.c ext4: move headers out of include/linux 2008-04-29 18:13:32 -04:00
ext4_jbd2.h ext4: Use new framework for data=ordered mode in JBD2 2008-07-11 19:27:31 -04:00
ext4_sb.h ext4: New inode allocation for FLEX_BG meta-data groups. 2008-07-11 19:27:31 -04:00
extents.c ext4: Invert lock ordering of page_lock and transaction start in delalloc 2008-07-11 19:27:31 -04:00
file.c ext4: Use page_mkwrite vma_operations to get mmap write notification. 2008-07-11 19:27:31 -04:00
fsync.c ext4: call blkdev_issue_flush on fsync 2008-07-11 19:27:31 -04:00
group.h ext4: Rename read_block_bitmap() to ext4_read_block_bitmap() 2008-07-11 19:27:31 -04:00
hash.c ext4: move headers out of include/linux 2008-04-29 18:13:32 -04:00
ialloc.c ext4: New inode allocation for FLEX_BG meta-data groups. 2008-07-11 19:27:31 -04:00
inode.c ext4: Handle page without buffers in ext4_*_writepage() 2008-07-11 19:27:31 -04:00
ioctl.c ext4: move headers out of include/linux 2008-04-29 18:13:32 -04:00
Makefile ext4: Add multi block allocator for ext4 2008-01-29 00:19:52 -05:00
mballoc.c ext4: delayed allocation ENOSPC handling 2008-07-14 17:52:37 -04:00
mballoc.h ext4: Move mballoc headers/structures to a seperate header file mballoc.h 2008-04-29 22:01:31 -04:00
migrate.c ext4: move headers out of include/linux 2008-04-29 18:13:32 -04:00
namei.c ext4: cleanup never-used magic numbers from htree code 2008-07-11 19:27:31 -04:00
namei.h [PATCH] ext4: rename ext4 symbols to avoid duplication of ext3 symbols 2006-10-11 11:14:15 -07:00
resize.c ext4: fix online resize with mballoc 2008-07-11 19:27:31 -04:00
super.c ext4: delayed allocation ENOSPC handling 2008-07-14 17:52:37 -04:00
symlink.c ext4: move headers out of include/linux 2008-04-29 18:13:32 -04:00
xattr.c ext4: Use inode preallocation with -o noextents 2008-07-11 19:27:31 -04:00
xattr.h ext4: make ext4_xattr_list() static 2008-04-17 10:38:59 -04:00
xattr_security.c ext4: move headers out of include/linux 2008-04-29 18:13:32 -04:00
xattr_trusted.c ext4: remove double definitions of xattr macros 2008-07-11 19:27:31 -04:00
xattr_user.c ext4: remove double definitions of xattr macros 2008-07-11 19:27:31 -04:00