Daniel Phillips wrote:
> 
> This is easy, just set the list head to the page about to be truncated.

Works for me.

--- linux-2.4.5/mm/filemap.c    Mon May 28 13:31:49 2001
+++ linux-akpm/mm/filemap.c     Sun Jun 10 11:29:19 2001
@@ -235,12 +235,13 @@
 
                /* Is one of the pages to truncate? */
                if ((offset >= start) || (*partial && (offset + 1) == start)) {
+                       list_del(head);
+                       list_add_tail(head, curr);
                        if (TryLockPage(page)) {
                                page_cache_get(page);
                                spin_unlock(&pagecache_lock);
                                wait_on_page(page);
-                               page_cache_release(page);
-                               return 1;
+                               goto out_restart;
                        }
                        page_cache_get(page);
                        spin_unlock(&pagecache_lock);
@@ -252,11 +253,14 @@
                                truncate_complete_page(page);
 
                        UnlockPage(page);
-                       page_cache_release(page);
-                       return 1;
+                       goto out_restart;
                }
        }
        return 0;
+out_restart:
+       page_cache_release(page);
+       spin_lock(&pagecache_lock);
+       return 1;
 }
 
 
@@ -273,15 +277,18 @@
 {
        unsigned long start = (lstart + PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - 1) >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
        unsigned partial = lstart & (PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - 1);
+       int complete;
 
-repeat:
        spin_lock(&pagecache_lock);
-       if (truncate_list_pages(&mapping->clean_pages, start, &partial))
-               goto repeat;
-       if (truncate_list_pages(&mapping->dirty_pages, start, &partial))
-               goto repeat;
-       if (truncate_list_pages(&mapping->locked_pages, start, &partial))
-               goto repeat;
+       do {
+               complete = 1;
+               while (truncate_list_pages(&mapping->clean_pages, start, &partial))
+                       complete = 0;
+               while (truncate_list_pages(&mapping->dirty_pages, start, &partial))
+                       complete = 0;
+               while (truncate_list_pages(&mapping->locked_pages, start, &partial))
+                       complete = 0;
+       } while (!complete);
        spin_unlock(&pagecache_lock);
 }
-
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