stantly trying to flush things to disk. 3) btrfs_file_write will lock down page cache pages, make sure any writeback is finished, do the copy_from_user and then release them. Before the loop runs we check the first and last pages in the write to see if they are only being partially modified. If the start or end of the write isn't aligned, we make sure the corresponding pages are up to date so that we don't introduce garbage into the file. With the copy_from_user changes, we're allowing the VM to reclaim the pages after a partial update from copy_from_user, but we're not making sure the page cache page is up to date when we loop around to resume the write. We deal with this by pushing the up to date checks down into the page prep code. This fits better with how the rest of file_write works. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason Reported-by: Mitch Harder cc: stable@kernel.org