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From: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
To: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfs:  shutdown xfs_sync_worker before the log
Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 11:23:25 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FC79AFD.4080103@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120525204536.GA4721@sgi.com>

On 05/25/12 15:45, Ben Myers wrote:

> xfs:  shutdown xfs_sync_worker before the log
>
> Revert commit 1307bbd, which uses the s_umount semaphore to provide
> exclusion between xfs_sync_worker and unmount, in favor of shutting down
> the sync worker before freeing the log in xfs_log_unmount.  This is a
> cleaner way of resolving the race between xfs_sync_worker and unmount
> than using s_umount.
>
> Index: xfs/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c

Waiting for the worker to end before destroying the AIL looks like a
better solution.

Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-05-31 16:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-23 17:43 BUG in xlog_get_lowest_lsn Ben Myers
2012-05-14 20:34 ` [PATCH] xfs: use s_umount sema in xfs_sync_worker Ben Myers
2012-05-15 18:30   ` Mark Tinguely
2012-05-15 19:06     ` Ben Myers
2012-05-16  1:56   ` Dave Chinner
2012-05-16 17:04     ` Ben Myers
2012-05-17  7:16       ` Dave Chinner
2012-05-23  9:02         ` Dave Chinner
2012-05-23 16:45           ` Ben Myers
2012-05-24 22:39         ` Ben Myers
2012-05-25 20:45           ` [PATCH] xfs: shutdown xfs_sync_worker before the log Ben Myers
2012-05-29 15:07             ` Ben Myers
2012-05-29 15:36               ` Brian Foster
2012-05-29 17:04                 ` Ben Myers
2012-05-29 17:54                   ` Brian Foster
2012-05-31 16:23             ` Mark Tinguely [this message]
2012-06-06  4:26             ` Dave Chinner
2012-06-11 20:45               ` Ben Myers
2012-06-11 21:11                 ` Mark Tinguely
2012-06-11 23:36                   ` Dave Chinner
2012-06-14 17:13                     ` Mark Tinguely
2012-06-14 23:56                       ` Dave Chinner
2012-06-20  7:44               ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-06-20  7:36             ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-06-20 17:18               ` Ben Myers
2012-06-20 22:59               ` Dave Chinner
2012-06-21  7:12                 ` Christoph Hellwig

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