xfs: eagerly remove vmap mappings to avoid upsetting Xen
authorJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:51:31 +0000 (11:51 -0700)
committerJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:51:31 +0000 (11:51 -0700)
commitace2e92e193126711cb3a83a3752b2c5b8396950
tree203e4ceb8456aec58bd27b07d78b12c90012470d
parenta122d6230e8d8ac7cffdf0bc9cc4b256b928fe49
xfs: eagerly remove vmap mappings to avoid upsetting Xen

XFS leaves stray mappings around when it vmaps memory to make it
virtually contigious.  This upsets Xen if one of those pages is being
recycled into a pagetable, since it finds an extra writable mapping of
the page.

This patch solves the problem in a brute force way, by making XFS
always eagerly unmap its mappings.  David Chinner says this shouldn't
have any performance impact on filesystems with default block sizes;
it will only affect filesystems with large block sizes.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Acked-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: XFS masters <xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com>
Cc: Stable kernel <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: Morten =?utf-8?q?B=C3=B8geskov?= <xen-users@morten.bogeskov.dk>
Cc: Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@cl.cam.ac.uk>
fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c