From 72ddc8f72270758951ccefb7d190f364d20215ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 15:46:08 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] do_wp_page: clarify dirty_page handling

Reorganize the code so that dirty pages are handled closer to the place
that makes them dirty (handling write fault into shared, writable VMAs).
No behavior changes.

Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Kosaki Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@google.com>
Cc: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com>
Cc: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
 mm/memory.c | 72 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------
 1 file changed, 38 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index d0cc1c134a64..9144fae9a68b 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -2229,8 +2229,45 @@ static int do_wp_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 		entry = maybe_mkwrite(pte_mkdirty(entry), vma);
 		if (ptep_set_access_flags(vma, address, page_table, entry,1))
 			update_mmu_cache(vma, address, page_table);
+		pte_unmap_unlock(page_table, ptl);
 		ret |= VM_FAULT_WRITE;
-		goto unlock;
+
+		if (!dirty_page)
+			return ret;
+
+		/*
+		 * Yes, Virginia, this is actually required to prevent a race
+		 * with clear_page_dirty_for_io() from clearing the page dirty
+		 * bit after it clear all dirty ptes, but before a racing
+		 * do_wp_page installs a dirty pte.
+		 *
+		 * do_no_page is protected similarly.
+		 */
+		if (!page_mkwrite) {
+			wait_on_page_locked(dirty_page);
+			set_page_dirty_balance(dirty_page, page_mkwrite);
+		}
+		put_page(dirty_page);
+		if (page_mkwrite) {
+			struct address_space *mapping = dirty_page->mapping;
+
+			set_page_dirty(dirty_page);
+			unlock_page(dirty_page);
+			page_cache_release(dirty_page);
+			if (mapping)	{
+				/*
+				 * Some device drivers do not set page.mapping
+				 * but still dirty their pages
+				 */
+				balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(mapping);
+			}
+		}
+
+		/* file_update_time outside page_lock */
+		if (vma->vm_file)
+			file_update_time(vma->vm_file);
+
+		return ret;
 	}
 
 	/*
@@ -2336,39 +2373,6 @@ static int do_wp_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 		page_cache_release(old_page);
 unlock:
 	pte_unmap_unlock(page_table, ptl);
-	if (dirty_page) {
-		/*
-		 * Yes, Virginia, this is actually required to prevent a race
-		 * with clear_page_dirty_for_io() from clearing the page dirty
-		 * bit after it clear all dirty ptes, but before a racing
-		 * do_wp_page installs a dirty pte.
-		 *
-		 * do_no_page is protected similarly.
-		 */
-		if (!page_mkwrite) {
-			wait_on_page_locked(dirty_page);
-			set_page_dirty_balance(dirty_page, page_mkwrite);
-		}
-		put_page(dirty_page);
-		if (page_mkwrite) {
-			struct address_space *mapping = dirty_page->mapping;
-
-			set_page_dirty(dirty_page);
-			unlock_page(dirty_page);
-			page_cache_release(dirty_page);
-			if (mapping)	{
-				/*
-				 * Some device drivers do not set page.mapping
-				 * but still dirty their pages
-				 */
-				balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(mapping);
-			}
-		}
-
-		/* file_update_time outside page_lock */
-		if (vma->vm_file)
-			file_update_time(vma->vm_file);
-	}
 	return ret;
 oom_free_new:
 	page_cache_release(new_page);
-- 
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