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fbdefio: add set_page_dirty handler to deferred IO FB

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Fixes kernel BUG at lib/radix-tree.c:473.

Previously the handler was incidentally provided by tmpfs but this was
removed with:

  commit 14fcc23fdc
  Author: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
  Date:   Mon Jul 28 15:46:19 2008 -0700

    tmpfs: fix kernel BUG in shmem_delete_inode

relying on this behaviour was incorrect in any case and the BUG also
appeared when the device node was on an ext3 filesystem.

v2: override a_ops at open() time rather than mmap() time to minimise
races per AKPM's concerns.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
Cc: Jaya Kumar <jayakumar.lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
Cc: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [14fcc23fd is in 2.6.25.14 and 2.6.26.1]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Ian Campbell
2008-08-20 14:09:23 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent b42f931737
commit d847471d06
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@ -976,6 +976,9 @@ static inline void __fb_pad_aligned_buffer(u8 *dst, u32 d_pitch,
/* drivers/video/fb_defio.c */
extern void fb_deferred_io_init(struct fb_info *info);
extern void fb_deferred_io_open(struct fb_info *info,
struct inode *inode,
struct file *file);
extern void fb_deferred_io_cleanup(struct fb_info *info);
extern int fb_deferred_io_fsync(struct file *file, struct dentry *dentry,
int datasync);