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tmpfs: open a window in shmem_unuse_inode
authorHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Tue, 5 Feb 2008 06:28:53 +0000 (22:28 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 5 Feb 2008 17:44:15 +0000 (09:44 -0800)
commit2e0e26c76a35de8f8bec6b2b917518cfeb52888a
tree1357781bfe035c2401c65b2d0203385a47516bf5
parentcb5f7b9a47963d9238398cd0c2676473e3c6896d
tmpfs: open a window in shmem_unuse_inode

There are a couple of reasons (patches follow) why it would be good to open a
window for sleep in shmem_unuse_inode, between its search for a matching swap
entry, and its handling of the entry found.

shmem_unuse_inode must then use igrab to hold the inode against deletion in
that window, and its corresponding iput might result in deletion: so it had
better unlock_page before the iput, and might as well release the page too.

Nor is there any need to hold on to shmem_swaplist_mutex once we know we'll
leave the loop.  So this unwinding moves from try_to_unuse and shmem_unuse
into shmem_unuse_inode, in the case when it finds a match.

Let try_to_unuse break on error in the shmem_unuse case, as it does in the
unuse_mm case: though at this point in the series, no error to break on.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/shmem.c
mm/swapfile.c