Merge branch 'linus' into omap-for-v3.8/cleanup-headers-prepare-multiplatform-v3

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
index 7df7984d476..2ee1ef0f317 100644
--- a/mm/rmap.c
+++ b/mm/rmap.c
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@
 #include <linux/mmu_notifier.h>
 #include <linux/migrate.h>
 #include <linux/hugetlb.h>
+#include <linux/backing-dev.h>
 
 #include <asm/tlbflush.h>
 
@@ -926,11 +927,8 @@ int page_mkclean(struct page *page)
 
 	if (page_mapped(page)) {
 		struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
-		if (mapping) {
+		if (mapping)
 			ret = page_mkclean_file(mapping, page);
-			if (page_test_and_clear_dirty(page_to_pfn(page), 1))
-				ret = 1;
-		}
 	}
 
 	return ret;
@@ -1116,6 +1114,7 @@ void page_add_file_rmap(struct page *page)
  */
 void page_remove_rmap(struct page *page)
 {
+	struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
 	bool anon = PageAnon(page);
 	bool locked;
 	unsigned long flags;
@@ -1138,8 +1137,19 @@ void page_remove_rmap(struct page *page)
 	 * this if the page is anon, so about to be freed; but perhaps
 	 * not if it's in swapcache - there might be another pte slot
 	 * containing the swap entry, but page not yet written to swap.
+	 *
+	 * And we can skip it on file pages, so long as the filesystem
+	 * participates in dirty tracking; but need to catch shm and tmpfs
+	 * and ramfs pages which have been modified since creation by read
+	 * fault.
+	 *
+	 * Note that mapping must be decided above, before decrementing
+	 * mapcount (which luckily provides a barrier): once page is unmapped,
+	 * it could be truncated and page->mapping reset to NULL at any moment.
+	 * Note also that we are relying on page_mapping(page) to set mapping
+	 * to &swapper_space when PageSwapCache(page).
 	 */
-	if ((!anon || PageSwapCache(page)) &&
+	if (mapping && !mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping) &&
 	    page_test_and_clear_dirty(page_to_pfn(page), 1))
 		set_page_dirty(page);
 	/*