From: Andrew Morton Account for the number of byte writes which this process caused to not happen after all. Cc: Jay Lan Cc: Shailabh Nagar Cc: Balbir Singh Cc: Chris Sturtivant Cc: Tony Ernst Cc: Guillaume Thouvenin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- fs/buffer.c | 7 ++++++- mm/truncate.c | 4 +++- 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/buffer.c~io-accounting-write-cancel-accounting fs/buffer.c --- a/fs/buffer.c~io-accounting-write-cancel-accounting +++ a/fs/buffer.c @@ -2857,8 +2857,13 @@ int try_to_free_buffers(struct page *pag * could encounter a non-uptodate page, which is unresolvable. * This only applies in the rare case where try_to_free_buffers * succeeds but the page is not freed. + * + * Also, during truncate, discard_buffer will have marked all + * the page's buffers clean. We discover that here and clean + * the page also. */ - clear_page_dirty(page); + if (test_clear_page_dirty(page)) + task_io_account_cancelled_write(PAGE_CACHE_SIZE); } out: if (buffers_to_free) { diff -puN mm/truncate.c~io-accounting-write-cancel-accounting mm/truncate.c --- a/mm/truncate.c~io-accounting-write-cancel-accounting +++ a/mm/truncate.c @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include /* grr. try_to_release_page, do_invalidatepage */ @@ -69,7 +70,8 @@ truncate_complete_page(struct address_sp if (PagePrivate(page)) do_invalidatepage(page, 0); - clear_page_dirty(page); + if (test_clear_page_dirty(page)) + task_io_account_cancelled_write(PAGE_CACHE_SIZE); ClearPageUptodate(page); ClearPageMappedToDisk(page); remove_from_page_cache(page); _