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From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
	Alex Zhuravlev <Alex.Zhuravlev@sun.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] JBD2: round commit timer up to avoid uncommitted transaction
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:00:35 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090730180035.GC4231@webber.adilger.int> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090730174710.GB9223@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>

On Jul 30, 2009  19:47 +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> > jbd and jbd2 fixes: fix jiffie rounding in jbd commit timer setup code.
> > Rounding down could cause the timer to be fired before the corresponding
> > transaction has expired.  That transaction can stay not committed forever if
> > no new transaction is created or expicit sync/umount happens.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Alex Zhuravlev (Tomas) <alex.zhuravlev@sun.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
>
>   Looks fine. You can add:
> Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
>   How about a similar JBD fix?

Index: linux-2.6.27.21-0.1/fs/jbd/transaction.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.27.21-0.1.orig/fs/jbd/transaction.c	2009-06-10 11:11:41.000000000 -0600
+++ linux-2.6.27.21-0.1/fs/jbd/transaction.c	2009-06-10 11:12:32.000000000 -0600
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
 	spin_lock_init(&transaction->t_inode_list);
 
 	/* Set up the commit timer for the new transaction. */
-	journal->j_commit_timer.expires = round_jiffies(transaction->t_expires);
+	journal->j_commit_timer.expires = round_jiffies_up(transaction->t_expires);
 	add_timer(&journal->j_commit_timer);
 
 	J_ASSERT(journal->j_running_transaction == NULL);

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.


  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-30 18:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-27 20:22 [PATCH] JBD2: round commit timer up to avoid uncommitted transaction Andreas Dilger
2009-07-30 17:47 ` Jan Kara
2009-07-30 18:00   ` Andreas Dilger [this message]
2009-07-30 18:11     ` Jan Kara
2009-08-11  2:52 ` Theodore Tso

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