[PATCH] invalidate_inode_pages fixes
Two fixes here. First: Fixes a BUG() which occurs if you try to perform O_DIRECT IO against a blockdev which has an fs mounted on it. (We should be able to do that). What happens is that do_invalidatepage() ends up calling discard_buffer() on buffers which it couldn't strip. That clears buffer_mapped() against useful things like the superblock buffer_head. The next submit_bh() goes BUG over the write of an unmapped buffer. So just run try_to_release_page() (aka try_to_free_buffers()) on the invalidate path. Second: The invalidate_inode_pages() functions are best-effort pagecache shrinkers. They are used against pages inside i_size and are not supposed to throw away dirty data. However it is possible for another CPU to run set_page_dirty() against one of these pages after invalidate_inode_pages() has decided that it is clean. This could happen if someone was performing O_DIRECT IO against a file which was also mapped with MAP_SHARED. So recheck the dirty state of the page inside the mapping->page_lock and back out if the page has just been marked dirty. This will also prevent the remove_from_page_cache() BUG which will occur if someone marks the page dirty between the clear_page_dirty() and remove_from_page_cache() calls in truncate_complete_page().
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