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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2008-09-17 01:11:43 +0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2008-09-17 01:11:43 +0400
commit2e57572a50a4de41c6cbc879a4866a312d4cd316 (patch)
treec4f58ec96c06642c4b415b881d3f0a3b673d5b44 /mm/filemap.c
parent9b2e43ae4e9609f80034dfe8de895045cac52d77 (diff)
parentf948cc6ab9e61a8e88d70ee9aafc690e6d26f92c (diff)
downloadlinux-2e57572a50a4de41c6cbc879a4866a312d4cd316.tar.xz
Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6
Conflicts: arch/sparc64/kernel/pci_psycho.c
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/filemap.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/filemap.c11
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index 54e968650855..876bc595d0f8 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -2129,13 +2129,20 @@ generic_file_direct_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
* After a write we want buffered reads to be sure to go to disk to get
* the new data. We invalidate clean cached page from the region we're
* about to write. We do this *before* the write so that we can return
- * -EIO without clobbering -EIOCBQUEUED from ->direct_IO().
+ * without clobbering -EIOCBQUEUED from ->direct_IO().
*/
if (mapping->nrpages) {
written = invalidate_inode_pages2_range(mapping,
pos >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT, end);
- if (written)
+ /*
+ * If a page can not be invalidated, return 0 to fall back
+ * to buffered write.
+ */
+ if (written) {
+ if (written == -EBUSY)
+ return 0;
goto out;
+ }
}
written = mapping->a_ops->direct_IO(WRITE, iocb, iov, pos, *nr_segs);