nilfs2: get rid of private page allocator

Previously, nilfs was cloning pages for mmapped region to freeze their
data and ensure consistency of checksum during writeback cycles.  A
private page allocator was used for this page cloning.  But, we no
longer need to do that since clear_page_dirty_for_io function sets up
pte so that vm_ops->page_mkwrite function is called right before the
mmapped pages are modified and nilfs_page_mkwrite function can safely
wait for the pages to be written back to disk.

So, this stops making a copy of mmapped pages during writeback, and
eliminates the private page allocation and deallocation functions from
nilfs.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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Ryusuke Konishi
2011-04-04 12:53:28 +09:00
parent eaae0f37d8
commit 1cb2d38cb3
6 changed files with 18 additions and 207 deletions

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@@ -111,7 +111,6 @@ static int nilfs_page_mkwrite(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_fault *vmf)
nilfs_transaction_commit(inode->i_sb);
mapped:
SetPageChecked(page);
wait_on_page_writeback(page);
return VM_FAULT_LOCKED;
}