Re: 2.6.22-rc3-mm1 - page_mkwrite() breakage

[Mark Fasheh]

On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 11:58:23PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>  git-ocfs2.patch

Andrew, thanks for getting that back in there.


mm-fix-fault-vs-invalidate-race-for-linear-mappings.patch broke ocfs2 shared
writable mmap. We hang on a page lock because ->page_mkwrite() is
being called with the page already locked:

+	/*
+	 * For consistency in subsequent calls, make the nopage_page always
+	 * locked.
+	 */
+	if (unlikely(!(vma->vm_flags & VM_CAN_INVALIDATE)))
+		lock_page(nopage_page);

It wasn't previously being called with the page lock held, intentionally.
	--Mark

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Mark Fasheh
Senior Software Developer, Oracle
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