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| author | Nate Diller <nate.diller@gmail.com> | 2007-05-09 02:35:07 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-05-09 12:30:55 -0700 |
| commit | 01f2705daf5a36208e69d7cf95db9c330f843af6 (patch) | |
| tree | 2d2c7a042c2466ed985f6e0950450c099f02725f /drivers/block | |
| parent | 38a23e311b6cd389b9d8af2ea6c28c8cffbe581c (diff) | |
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fs: convert core functions to zero_user_page
It's very common for file systems to need to zero part or all of a page,
the simplist way is just to use kmap_atomic() and memset(). There's
actually a library function in include/linux/highmem.h that does exactly
that, but it's confusingly named memclear_highpage_flush(), which is
descriptive of *how* it does the work rather than what the *purpose* is.
So this patchset renames the function to zero_user_page(), and calls it
from the various places that currently open code it.
This first patch introduces the new function call, and converts all the
core kernel callsites, both the open-coded ones and the old
memclear_highpage_flush() ones. Following this patch is a series of
conversions for each file system individually, per AKPM, and finally a
patch deprecating the old call. The diffstat below shows the entire
patchset.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix a few things]
Signed-off-by: Nate Diller <nate.diller@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/block')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/block/loop.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/block/loop.c b/drivers/block/loop.c index af6d7274a7cc..18cdd8c77626 100644 --- a/drivers/block/loop.c +++ b/drivers/block/loop.c @@ -243,17 +243,13 @@ static int do_lo_send_aops(struct loop_device *lo, struct bio_vec *bvec, transfer_result = lo_do_transfer(lo, WRITE, page, offset, bvec->bv_page, bv_offs, size, IV); if (unlikely(transfer_result)) { - char *kaddr; - /* * The transfer failed, but we still write the data to * keep prepare/commit calls balanced. */ printk(KERN_ERR "loop: transfer error block %llu\n", (unsigned long long)index); - kaddr = kmap_atomic(page, KM_USER0); - memset(kaddr + offset, 0, size); - kunmap_atomic(kaddr, KM_USER0); + zero_user_page(page, offset, size, KM_USER0); } flush_dcache_page(page); ret = aops->commit_write(file, page, offset, |