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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2011-08-07 21:08:28 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2011-08-07 21:08:41 -0700
commitb6741d1fe947f829bd4303397fd888e1d4b66bae (patch)
treea41c8cf58ddfd82d3083b666479a82df018297f7 /mm/truncate.c
parentacab460b0f618e1e9663eea8c52ad5edd552ed1d (diff)
parent322a8b034003c0d46d39af85bf24fee27b902f48 (diff)
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Merge 3.1-rc1 into usb-linus
Gives us a good starting point to base patches off of. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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diff --git a/mm/truncate.c b/mm/truncate.c
index 232eb2736a79..b40ac6d4e86e 100644
--- a/mm/truncate.c
+++ b/mm/truncate.c
@@ -336,6 +336,14 @@ unsigned long invalidate_mapping_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
unsigned long count = 0;
int i;
+ /*
+ * Note: this function may get called on a shmem/tmpfs mapping:
+ * pagevec_lookup() might then return 0 prematurely (because it
+ * got a gangful of swap entries); but it's hardly worth worrying
+ * about - it can rarely have anything to free from such a mapping
+ * (most pages are dirty), and already skips over any difficulties.
+ */
+
pagevec_init(&pvec, 0);
while (index <= end && pagevec_lookup(&pvec, mapping, index,
min(end - index, (pgoff_t)PAGEVEC_SIZE - 1) + 1)) {
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