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| author | Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> | 2012-05-03 14:48:01 +0200 |
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| committer | Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> | 2012-05-06 07:43:40 +0200 |
| commit | 7994e6f7254354e03028a11f98a27bd67dace9f1 (patch) | |
| tree | b93db15bf5e4cd890670db0fd36575b5efce2366 /ipc | |
| parent | writeback: Refactor writeback_single_inode() (diff) | |
| download | linux-7994e6f7254354e03028a11f98a27bd67dace9f1.tar.xz linux-7994e6f7254354e03028a11f98a27bd67dace9f1.zip | |
vfs: Move waiting for inode writeback from end_writeback() to evict_inode()
Currently, I_SYNC can never be set when evict_inode() (and thus
end_writeback()) is called because flusher thread holds inode reference while
inode is under writeback. As a result inode_sync_wait() in those places
currently does nothing. However that is going to change and unveils problems
with calling inode_sync_wait() from end_writeback(). Several filesystems call
end_writeback() after they have deleted the inode (btrfs, gfs2, ...) and other
filesystems (ext3, ext4, reiserfs, ...) can deadlock when waiting for I_SYNC
because they call end_writeback() from within a transaction.
To avoid these issues, we move inode_sync_wait() into evict_inode() before
calling ->evict_inode(). That way we preserve the current property that
->evict_inode() and writeback never run in parallel and all filesystems are
safe.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
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