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authorPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>2011-08-08 13:45:28 +0900
committerPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>2011-08-08 13:45:28 +0900
commit77c7ee51a062bb595c501ec098125a68999c20c3 (patch)
treec5060ca5786ef353e005dae04b61d2c49967284d /mm/truncate.c
parent1ba762209491e2496e58baffa3fd65d661f54404 (diff)
parent322a8b034003c0d46d39af85bf24fee27b902f48 (diff)
Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux into sh-latest
Conflicts: drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/truncate.c b/mm/truncate.c
index 232eb2736a7..b40ac6d4e86 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)) {