NFS: Avoid races between writebacks and truncation
Currently, there is no serialisation between NFS asynchronous writebacks
and truncation at the page level due to the fact that nfs_sync_inode()
cannot lock the pages that it is about to write out.
This means that it is possible to be flushing out data (and calling something
like set_page_writeback()) while the page cache is busy evicting the page.
Oops...
Use the hooks provided in try_to_release_page() to ensure that dirty pages
are always written back to storage before we evict them.
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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