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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	axboe@kernel.dk, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] writeback: enforce s_umount locking in writeback_inodes_sb
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 19:59:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100615175935.GA7645@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100615175413.GG3347@quack.suse.cz>

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 07:54:13PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
>   But this is buggy isn't it? writeback_inodes_sb() returns as soon as
> flusher threads start submitting the IO. So we release s_umount too early -
> flusher threads can be still writing out inodes for our work. It's exactly
> cases like this why I don't like the work to be called "done" when flusher
> threads actually still do it...

Now that writeback_inodes_sb uses bdi_queue_work_onstack, wb_do_writeback
doesn't signal completion until I/O is submitted.  So the locking should
be safe.


  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-15 17:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-08 16:14 [PATCH 0/6] writeback fixes - slow unmount and others Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-08 16:14 ` [PATCH 1/6] writeback: fix writeback completion notifications Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-08 19:50   ` Jens Axboe
2010-06-15 17:25   ` Jan Kara
2010-06-15 17:30     ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-08 16:14 ` [PATCH 2/6] writeback: queue work on stack in writeback_inodes_sb Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-08 19:51   ` Jens Axboe
2010-06-08 16:14 ` [PATCH 3/6] writeback: enforce s_umount locking " Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-15 17:54   ` Jan Kara
2010-06-15 17:59     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2010-06-15 18:04       ` Jan Kara
2010-06-08 16:14 ` [PATCH 4/6] writeback: fix writeback_inodes_wb from writeback_inodes_sb Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-08 19:51   ` Jens Axboe
2010-06-09 12:25     ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-09 12:29       ` Jens Axboe
2010-06-08 16:15 ` [PATCH 5/6] writeback: simplify wakeup_flusher_threads Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-08 19:51   ` Jens Axboe
2010-06-08 16:15 ` [PATCH 6/6] writeback: simplify and split bdi_start_writeback Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-08 19:52   ` Jens Axboe

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