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mm: remove __invalidate_mapping_pages variant

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Remove __invalidate_mapping_pages atomic variant now that its sole caller
can sleep (fixed in eccb95cee4 ("vfs: fix
lock inversion in drop_pagecache_sb()")).

This fixes softlockups that can occur while in the drop_caches path.

Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Mike Waychison
2009-06-16 15:32:59 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 82553a937f
commit 286973552f
3 changed files with 17 additions and 27 deletions
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@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ static void drop_pagecache_sb(struct super_block *sb)
continue;
__iget(inode);
spin_unlock(&inode_lock);
__invalidate_mapping_pages(inode->i_mapping, 0, -1, true);
invalidate_mapping_pages(inode->i_mapping, 0, -1);
iput(toput_inode);
toput_inode = inode;
spin_lock(&inode_lock);