[PATCH] set_page_dirty() return value fixes
We need set_page_dirty() to return true if it actually transitioned the page
from a clean to dirty state. This wasn't right in a couple of places. Do a
kernel-wide audit, fix things up.
This leaves open the possibility of returning a negative errno from
set_page_dirty() sometime in the future. But we don't do that at present.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index c67ddc4..893d767 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -628,8 +628,6 @@
*/
int __set_page_dirty_nobuffers(struct page *page)
{
- int ret = 0;
-
if (!TestSetPageDirty(page)) {
struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
struct address_space *mapping2;
@@ -651,8 +649,9 @@
I_DIRTY_PAGES);
}
}
+ return 1;
}
- return ret;
+ return 0;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__set_page_dirty_nobuffers);
@@ -682,8 +681,10 @@
return (*spd)(page);
return __set_page_dirty_buffers(page);
}
- if (!PageDirty(page))
- SetPageDirty(page);
+ if (!PageDirty(page)) {
+ if (!TestSetPageDirty(page))
+ return 1;
+ }
return 0;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(set_page_dirty);