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authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>2011-09-17 10:29:49 -0300
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>2011-09-17 10:29:49 -0300
commit7577911244c437f4a4abac5e4b67b059c06dbe9d (patch)
tree4f0078ddacff226e26b03fa4f6cf185d48633124 /mm/truncate.c
parent418d93ac0be6d4a410731b80af4e836614ffe73e (diff)
parentb6fd41e29dea9c6753b1843a77e50433e6123bcb (diff)
Merge tag 'v3.1-rc6' into staging/for_v3.2
* tag 'v3.1-rc6': (1902 commits) Linux 3.1-rc6 ioctl: register LTTng ioctl fuse: fix memory leak fuse: fix flock breakage Btrfs: add dummy extent if dst offset excceeds file end in Btrfs: calc file extent num_bytes correctly in file clone btrfs: xattr: fix attribute removal Btrfs: fix wrong nbytes information of the inode Btrfs: fix the file extent gap when doing direct IO Btrfs: fix unclosed transaction handle in btrfs_cont_expand Btrfs: fix misuse of trans block rsv Btrfs: reset to appropriate block rsv after orphan operations Btrfs: skip locking if searching the commit root in csum lookup btrfs: fix warning in iput for bad-inode Btrfs: fix an oops when deleting snapshots [media] vp7045: fix buffer setup [media] nuvoton-cir: simplify raw IR sample handling [media] [Resend] viacam: Don't explode if pci_find_bus() returns NULL [media] v4l2: Fix documentation of the codec device controls [media] gspca - sonixj: Fix the darkness of sensor om6802 in 320x240 ...
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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)) {