From: NeilBrown md/bitmap gets a collection of pages representing the bitmap when it initialises the bitmap, and puts all the references when discarding the bitmap. It also occasionally takes extra references without any good reason, and sometimes drops them ... though it doesn't always drop them, which can result in a memory leak. This patch removes the unnecessary 'get_page' calls, and the corresponding 'put_page' calls. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- drivers/md/bitmap.c | 20 ++------------------ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/md/bitmap.c~md-bitmap-remove-unnecessary-page-reference-manipulations-from-md-bitmap-code drivers/md/bitmap.c --- 25/drivers/md/bitmap.c~md-bitmap-remove-unnecessary-page-reference-manipulations-from-md-bitmap-code Fri May 12 10:24:46 2006 +++ 25-akpm/drivers/md/bitmap.c Fri May 12 10:24:46 2006 @@ -332,7 +332,6 @@ static int write_page(struct bitmap *bit /* add to list to be waited for */ struct page_list *item = mempool_alloc(bitmap->write_pool, GFP_NOIO); item->page = page; - get_page(page); spin_lock(&bitmap->write_lock); list_add(&item->list, &bitmap->complete_pages); spin_unlock(&bitmap->write_lock); @@ -548,7 +547,6 @@ static void bitmap_mask_state(struct bit spin_unlock_irqrestore(&bitmap->lock, flags); return; } - get_page(bitmap->sb_page); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&bitmap->lock, flags); sb = (bitmap_super_t *)kmap_atomic(bitmap->sb_page, KM_USER0); switch (op) { @@ -559,7 +557,6 @@ static void bitmap_mask_state(struct bit default: BUG(); } kunmap_atomic(sb, KM_USER0); - put_page(bitmap->sb_page); } /* @@ -641,7 +638,6 @@ static void drain_write_queues(struct bi while ((item = dequeue_page(bitmap))) { /* don't bother to wait */ - put_page(item->page); mempool_free(item, bitmap->write_pool); } } @@ -744,11 +740,6 @@ static void bitmap_file_set_bit(struct b page = filemap_get_page(bitmap, chunk); bit = file_page_offset(chunk); - - /* make sure the page stays cached until it gets written out */ - if (! test_page_attr(bitmap, page, BITMAP_PAGE_DIRTY)) - get_page(page); - /* set the bit */ kaddr = kmap_atomic(page, KM_USER0); if (bitmap->flags & BITMAP_HOSTENDIAN) @@ -1028,10 +1019,9 @@ int bitmap_daemon_work(struct bitmap *bi if (!test_page_attr(bitmap, page, BITMAP_PAGE_CLEAN)) { int need_write = test_page_attr(bitmap, page, BITMAP_PAGE_NEEDWRITE); - if (need_write) { - get_page(page); + if (need_write) clear_page_attr(bitmap, page, BITMAP_PAGE_NEEDWRITE); - } + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&bitmap->lock, flags); if (need_write) { switch (write_page(bitmap, page, 0)) { @@ -1043,13 +1033,11 @@ int bitmap_daemon_work(struct bitmap *bi default: bitmap_file_kick(bitmap); } - put_page(page); } continue; } /* grab the new page, sync and release the old */ - get_page(page); if (lastpage != NULL) { if (test_page_attr(bitmap, lastpage, BITMAP_PAGE_NEEDWRITE)) { clear_page_attr(bitmap, lastpage, BITMAP_PAGE_NEEDWRITE); @@ -1063,7 +1051,6 @@ int bitmap_daemon_work(struct bitmap *bi set_page_attr(bitmap, lastpage, BITMAP_PAGE_NEEDWRITE); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&bitmap->lock, flags); } - put_page(lastpage); if (err) bitmap_file_kick(bitmap); } else @@ -1117,8 +1104,6 @@ int bitmap_daemon_work(struct bitmap *bi set_page_attr(bitmap, lastpage, BITMAP_PAGE_NEEDWRITE); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&bitmap->lock, flags); } - - put_page(lastpage); } return err; @@ -1140,7 +1125,6 @@ static void bitmap_writeback(struct bitm PRINTK("finished page writeback: %p\n", page); err = PageError(page); - put_page(page); if (err) { printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: bitmap file writeback " "failed (page %lu): %d\n", _