On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 08:01:31AM +0100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Thanks for the review, I'll post an incremental patch in a sec.
 

Index: linux-2.6/drivers/block/brd.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/block/brd.c
+++ linux-2.6/drivers/block/brd.c
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ struct brd_device {
  */
 static struct page *brd_lookup_page(struct brd_device *brd, sector_t sector)
 {
-       unsigned long idx;
+       pgoff_t idx;
        struct page *page;
 
        /*
@@ -87,13 +87,17 @@ static struct page *brd_lookup_page(stru
  */
 static struct page *brd_insert_page(struct brd_device *brd, sector_t sector)
 {
-       unsigned long idx;
+       pgoff_t idx;
        struct page *page;
 
        page = brd_lookup_page(brd, sector);
        if (page)
                return page;
 
+       /*
+        * Must use NOIO because we don't want to recurse back into the
+        * block or filesystem layers from page reclaim.
+        */
        page = alloc_page(GFP_NOIO | __GFP_HIGHMEM | __GFP_ZERO);
        if (!page)
                return NULL;
@@ -148,6 +152,11 @@ static void brd_free_pages(struct brd_de
 
                pos++;
 
+               /*
+                * This assumes radix_tree_gang_lookup always returns as
+                * many pages as possible. If the radix-tree code changes,
+                * so will this have to.
+                */
        } while (nr_pages == FREE_BATCH);
 }
 
@@ -159,7 +168,7 @@ static int copy_to_brd_setup(struct brd_
        unsigned int offset = (sector & (PAGE_SECTORS-1)) << SECTOR_SHIFT;
        size_t copy;
 
-       copy = min((unsigned long)n, PAGE_SIZE - offset);
+       copy = min_t(size_t, n, PAGE_SIZE - offset);
        if (!brd_insert_page(brd, sector))
                return -ENOMEM;
        if (copy < n) {
@@ -181,7 +190,7 @@ static void copy_to_brd(struct brd_devic
        unsigned int offset = (sector & (PAGE_SECTORS-1)) << SECTOR_SHIFT;
        size_t copy;
 
-       copy = min((unsigned long)n, PAGE_SIZE - offset);
+       copy = min_t(size_t, n, PAGE_SIZE - offset);
        page = brd_lookup_page(brd, sector);
        BUG_ON(!page);
 
@@ -213,7 +222,7 @@ static void copy_from_brd(void *dst, str
        unsigned int offset = (sector & (PAGE_SECTORS-1)) << SECTOR_SHIFT;
        size_t copy;
 
-       copy = min((unsigned long)n, PAGE_SIZE - offset);
+       copy = min_t(size_t, n, PAGE_SIZE - offset);
        page = brd_lookup_page(brd, sector);
        if (page) {
                src = kmap_atomic(page, KM_USER1);
@@ -318,6 +327,9 @@ static int brd_ioctl(struct inode *inode
                /*
                 * Invalidate the cache first, so it isn't written
                 * back to the device.
+                *
+                * Another thread might instantiate more buffercache here,
+                * but there is not much we can do to close that race.
                 */
                invalidate_bh_lrus();
                truncate_inode_pages(bdev->bd_inode->i_mapping, 0);
-
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