From: Nick Piggin Identical block is duplicated twice: contrary to the comment, we have been re-reading the page *twice* in filemap_nopage rather than once. If any retry logic or anything is needed, it belongs in lower levels anyway. Only retry once. Linus agrees. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- mm/filemap.c | 24 ------------------------ 1 file changed, 24 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/filemap.c~mm-simplify-filemap_nopage mm/filemap.c --- a/mm/filemap.c~mm-simplify-filemap_nopage +++ a/mm/filemap.c @@ -1446,30 +1446,6 @@ page_not_uptodate: majmin = VM_FAULT_MAJOR; count_vm_event(PGMAJFAULT); } - lock_page(page); - - /* Did it get unhashed while we waited for it? */ - if (!page->mapping) { - unlock_page(page); - page_cache_release(page); - goto retry_all; - } - - /* Did somebody else get it up-to-date? */ - if (PageUptodate(page)) { - unlock_page(page); - goto success; - } - - error = mapping->a_ops->readpage(file, page); - if (!error) { - wait_on_page_locked(page); - if (PageUptodate(page)) - goto success; - } else if (error == AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE) { - page_cache_release(page); - goto retry_find; - } /* * Umm, take care of errors if the page isn't up-to-date. _