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authorGrant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>2012-01-05 22:05:51 +0400
committerGrant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>2012-01-05 22:05:51 +0400
commitfda87903f4e9caf87e02d52768c2611e417b7efb (patch)
treebd2f84361699651cce5661bcfe60e3fe5ee91517 /fs/ext4/page-io.c
parent1a0703ede4493bd74f9c6b53f782b749e175a88e (diff)
parent2de0dbc5f6830e7659083d1929f57cb88b16a3b6 (diff)
downloadlinux-fda87903f4e9caf87e02d52768c2611e417b7efb.tar.xz
Merge branch 'gpio-for-grant' of git://sources.calxeda.com/kernel/linux into gpio/next
Conflicts: drivers/gpio/gpio-pl061.c
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ext4/page-io.c')
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diff --git a/fs/ext4/page-io.c b/fs/ext4/page-io.c
index 7ce1d0b19c94..7e106c810c62 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/page-io.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/page-io.c
@@ -385,6 +385,18 @@ int ext4_bio_write_page(struct ext4_io_submit *io,
block_end = block_start + blocksize;
if (block_start >= len) {
+ /*
+ * Comments copied from block_write_full_page_endio:
+ *
+ * The page straddles i_size. It must be zeroed out on
+ * each and every writepage invocation because it may
+ * be mmapped. "A file is mapped in multiples of the
+ * page size. For a file that is not a multiple of
+ * the page size, the remaining memory is zeroed when
+ * mapped, and writes to that region are not written
+ * out to the file."
+ */
+ zero_user_segment(page, block_start, block_end);
clear_buffer_dirty(bh);
set_buffer_uptodate(bh);
continue;