Hi,
With the patch below, ramfs will withstand make -j20 (binutils)
even while an iozone is running, and cp /dev/zero zero. These
fail as is. The problem seems to be in the way writepage() is
called.. ClearPageDirty(); writepage(). That screws up ramfs's
beancounting and makes it wipe pages and do double accounting.
(df;cp /dev/zero zero;rm zero;df to see accounting woes).
Accounting only from ramfs_prepare_write() seems to be enough for
the page limit to function (whodathunkit;)
-Mike
--- linux-2.4.1.ac2/fs/ramfs/inode.c.org Sat Feb 3 10:29:54 2001
+++ linux-2.4.1.ac2/fs/ramfs/inode.c Sat Feb 3 19:22:08 2001
@@ -173,11 +173,8 @@
(inode->i_data.nrpages <= rsb->max_file_pages) ) ) {
inode->i_blocks += IBLOCKS_PER_PAGE;
rsb->free_pages--;
- SetPageDirty(page);
- } else {
- ClearPageUptodate(page);
+ } else
ret = 0;
- }
unlock_rsb(rsb);
@@ -259,13 +256,7 @@
*/
static int ramfs_writepage(struct page *page)
{
- struct inode *inode = (struct inode *)page->mapping->host;
-
- if (! ramfs_alloc_page(inode, page))
- {
- UnlockPage(page);
- return -ENOSPC;
- }
+ SetPageDirty(page);
UnlockPage(page);
return 0;
}
@@ -275,9 +266,8 @@
struct inode *inode = (struct inode *)page->mapping->host;
void *addr;
- if (! ramfs_alloc_page(inode, page)) {
+ if (! ramfs_alloc_page(inode, page))
return -ENOSPC;
- }
addr = (void *) kmap(page);
if (!Page_Uptodate(page)) {
@@ -285,6 +275,7 @@
flush_dcache_page(page);
SetPageUptodate(page);
}
+ SetPageDirty(page);
return 0;
}
-
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