From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Mahoney Subject: Re: [PATCH] reiserfs: discard prealloc in reiserfs_delete_inode Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:23:37 -0400 Message-ID: <4877B339.4080103@suse.com> References: <4873B3D2.1090101@suse.com> <20080711121850.dfd60681.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20080711121850.dfd60681.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Sender: reiserfs-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Andrew Morton Cc: Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List , ReiserFS Mailing List , Greg KH -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:37:06 -0400 Jeff Mahoney wrote: > >> With the removal of struct file from the xattr code, reiserfs_file_release() >> isn't used anymore, so the prealloc isn't discarded. This causes hangs >> later down the line. >> >> This patch adds it to reiserfs_delete_inode. In most cases it will be >> a no-op due to it already having been called, but will avoid hangs with xattrs. >> >> Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney >> --- >> fs/reiserfs/inode.c | 2 ++ >> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) >> >> --- a/fs/reiserfs/inode.c >> +++ b/fs/reiserfs/inode.c >> @@ -45,6 +45,8 @@ void reiserfs_delete_inode(struct inode >> goto out; >> reiserfs_update_inode_transaction(inode); >> >> + reiserfs_discard_prealloc(&th, inode); >> + >> err = reiserfs_delete_object(&th, inode); >> >> /* Do quota update inside a transaction for journaled quotas. We must do that > > Can you please remind us when "the removal of struct file from the xattr > code" happened? > > Because hangs aren't good, and 2.6.25 might want this. You're right. It was added in 2.6.25-rc7. I'll ping Greg about including it in the stable tree. - -Jeff - -- Jeff Mahoney SUSE Labs -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkh3szkACgkQLPWxlyuTD7IOyACZAd0+kO4D+bPjx1W1pX/APgl+ eKgAoJ75yKu/IlmHxvlmyWM5DThyKCQL =BLAB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----