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From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
	Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] inode dirty blocks  Re: test12-pre4
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 18:16:21 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001204181621.E8700@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10012031828170.22914-100000@penguin.transmeta.com> <Pine.GSO.4.21.0012040054400.5055-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0012040054400.5055-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>; from viro@math.psu.edu on Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 01:01:36AM -0500

On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 01:01:36AM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote:
> 
> It doesn't solve the problem. If you unlink a file with dirty metadata
> you have a nice chance to hit the BUG() in inode.c:83. I hope that patch
> below closes all remaining holes. See analysis in previous posting
> (basically, bforget() is not enough when we free the block; bh should
> be removed from the inode's list regardless of the ->b_count).

Agreed.  However, is there any reason to have this as a separate
function?  bforget() should _always_ remove the buffer from any inode
queue.  You can make that operation conditional on (bh->b_inode !=
NULL) if you want to avoid taking the lru lock unnecessarily.

--Stephen
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2000-12-04 18:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-12-04  2:29 test12-pre4 Linus Torvalds
2000-12-04  3:57 ` test12-pre4 Mohammad A. Haque
2000-12-04  8:03   ` test12-pre4 Jeff Garzik
2000-12-04 12:25     ` test12-pre4 Alan Cox
2000-12-04 12:21   ` test12-pre4 Alan Cox
2000-12-04 20:22     ` test12-pre4 Nikhil Goel
2000-12-04  6:01 ` [PATCH] inode dirty blocks test12-pre4 Alexander Viro
2000-12-04 13:25   ` Andrew Morton
2000-12-04 13:49     ` [PATCH] inode dirty blocks Alexander Viro
2000-12-05  1:47       ` Andrew Morton
2000-12-05  2:41         ` Linus Torvalds
2000-12-05  3:31           ` Alexander Viro
2000-12-05  3:52             ` Linus Torvalds
2000-12-05  4:19               ` Alexander Viro
2000-12-05  2:49         ` Mohammad A. Haque
2000-12-05  4:15           ` Peter Samuelson
2000-12-04 18:16   ` Stephen C. Tweedie [this message]
2000-12-04 19:54     ` [PATCH] inode dirty blocks Re: test12-pre4 Alexander Viro
2000-12-05 20:35   ` Andrew Morton

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