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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com, linux-next@vger.kernel.org,
	Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux-next: xfs tree build failure
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:08:32 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081030090832.GQ17077@disturbed> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081030132324.0d619fdd.sfr@canb.auug.org.au>

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 01:23:24PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi David,
> 
> Today's linux-next build (powerpc ppc64_defconfig) failed like this:
> 
> ERROR: "inode_wait" [fs/xfs/xfs.ko] undefined!
> 
> Caused by commit 676a7711ee281c3bf41db18e29e296584de82793 ("[XFS] Fix
> race when looking up reclaimable inodes") which introduced a use of
> wait_on_inode() which is an inline that calls inode_wait().

Putting a non-exported symbol in an inline function in a header file
that is full of exported functions.  That's pretty anti-social. ;)

> I applied the following patch (probably wrong :-)).

I think it's probably the only solution - we need to wait until
the I_LOCK bit is cleared from the inode and AFAICT wait_on_inode()
is the only way to do it.

Christoph?

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-30  9:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-30  2:23 linux-next: xfs tree build failure Stephen Rothwell
2008-10-30  9:08 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2008-11-05  2:20   ` Stephen Rothwell
2008-11-05 20:47     ` Dave Chinner
2008-11-06 15:27       ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-11-07  5:06         ` Stephen Rothwell
2008-11-11  2:05           ` Lachlan McIlroy
2008-11-11  2:11             ` Stephen Rothwell

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