holepunch: fix disconnected pages after second truncate

shmem_truncate_range has its own truncate_inode_pages_range, to free any
pages racily instantiated while it was in progress: a SHMEM_PAGEIN flag
is set when this might have happened.  But holepunching gets no chance
to clear that flag at the start of vmtruncate_range, so it's always set
(unless a truncate came just before), so holepunch almost always does
this second truncate_inode_pages_range.

shmem holepunch has unlikely swap<->file races hereabouts whatever we do
(without a fuller rework than is fit for this release): I was going to
skip the second truncate in the punch_hole case, but Miklos points out
that would make holepunch correctness more vulnerable to swapoff.  So
keep the second truncate, but follow it by an unmap_mapping_range to
eliminate the disconnected pages (freed from pagecache while still
mapped in userspace) that it might have left behind.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
This commit is contained in:
Hugh Dickins
2007-05-04 00:53:54 +02:00
committed by Adrian Bunk
parent ffd0472d4e
commit 7943951f23
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@@ -669,8 +669,16 @@ done2:
* generic_delete_inode did it, before we lowered next_index.
* Also, though shmem_getpage checks i_size before adding to
* cache, no recheck after: so fix the narrow window there too.
*
* Recalling truncate_inode_pages_range and unmap_mapping_range
* every time for punch_hole (which never got a chance to clear
* SHMEM_PAGEIN at the start of vmtruncate_range) is expensive,
* yet hardly ever necessary: try to optimize them out later.
*/
truncate_inode_pages_range(inode->i_mapping, start, end);
if (punch_hole)
unmap_mapping_range(inode->i_mapping, start,
end - start, 1);
}
spin_lock(&info->lock);