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authorMinchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>2011-03-22 16:30:53 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-03-22 17:44:02 -0700
commit97cecb5a254fec22d28ef32235d888bfbfd7c783 (patch)
tree186c6bb9c1f999f807e2ec68dc6a0cf16c9d0d73 /mm
parentef6a3c63112e865d632ff7c478ba7c7160cad0d1 (diff)
mm: introduce delete_from_page_cache()
Presently we increase the page refcount in add_to_page_cache() but don't decrease it in remove_from_page_cache(). Such asymmetry adds confusion, requiring that callers notice it and a comment explaining why they release a page reference. It's not a good API. A long time ago, Hugh tried it (http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/10/24/140) but gave up because reiser4's drop_page() had to unlock the page between removing it from page cache and doing the page_cache_release(). But now the situation is changed. I think at least things in current mainline don't have any obstacles. The problem is for out-of-mainline filesystems - if they have done such things as reiser4, this patch could be a problem but they will discover this at compile time since we remove remove_from_page_cache(). This patch: This function works as just wrapper remove_from_page_cache(). The difference is that it decreases page references in itself. So caller have to make sure it has a page reference before calling. This patch is ready for removing remove_from_page_cache(). Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Edward Shishkin <edward.shishkin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/filemap.c16
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index c1459f2cdb5e..e7b59785ceb9 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -155,6 +155,22 @@ void remove_from_page_cache(struct page *page)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(remove_from_page_cache);
+/**
+ * delete_from_page_cache - delete page from page cache
+ * @page: the page which the kernel is trying to remove from page cache
+ *
+ * This must be called only on pages that have
+ * been verified to be in the page cache and locked.
+ * It will never put the page into the free list,
+ * the caller has a reference on the page.
+ */
+void delete_from_page_cache(struct page *page)
+{
+ remove_from_page_cache(page);
+ page_cache_release(page);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(delete_from_page_cache);
+
static int sync_page(void *word)
{
struct address_space *mapping;