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    ext4: provide function to release metadata pages under memory pressure · c39a7f84
    Toshiyuki Okajima 提交于
    Pages in the page cache belonging to ext4 data files are released via
    the ext4_releasepage() function specified in the ext4 inode's
    address_space_ops.  However, metadata blocks (such as indirect blocks,
    directory blocks, etc) are managed via the block device
    address_space_ops, and they can not be released by
    try_to_free_buffers() if they have a journal head attached to them.
    
    To address this, we supply a release_metadata function which calls
    jbd2_journal_try_to_free_buffers() function to free the metadata, and
    which is called by the block device's blkdev_releasepage() function.
    Signed-off-by: NToshiyuki Okajima <toshi.okajima@jp.fujitsu.com>
    Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
    Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
    c39a7f84
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