[patch] fuse: remove clear_page_dirty() call

From: Miklos Szeredi
Date: Thu Dec 21 2006 - 09:19:45 EST


> And with that, I then either rip out any old users of
> "test_clear_page_dirty()" or "clear_page_dirty()", and if appropriate (and
> it's realy lonly appropriate for "truncate()", I replace them with the new
> "cancel_dirty_page()". Most of the time, they should just be deleted
> entirely.
>
> NOTE NOTE NOTE! I _only_ did enough to make things compile for my
> particular configuration. That means that right now the following
> filesystems are broken with this patch (because they use the totally
> broken old crap):
>
> CIFS, FUSE, JFS, ReiserFS, XFS

The use by FUSE was just a remnant of an optimization from the time
when writable mappings were supported.

Now FUSE never actually allows the creation of dirty pages, so this
invocation of clear_page_dirty() is effectively a no-op.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx>
---

Index: linux/fs/fuse/file.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/fs/fuse/file.c 2006-12-21 15:06:32.000000000 +0100
+++ linux/fs/fuse/file.c 2006-12-21 15:07:02.000000000 +0100
@@ -483,10 +483,8 @@ static int fuse_commit_write(struct file
i_size_write(inode, pos);
spin_unlock(&fc->lock);

- if (offset == 0 && to == PAGE_CACHE_SIZE) {
- clear_page_dirty(page);
+ if (offset == 0 && to == PAGE_CACHE_SIZE)
SetPageUptodate(page);
- }
}
fuse_invalidate_attr(inode);
return err;

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