From: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
To: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
Cc: xfs-dev <xfs-dev@sgi.com>, xfs-oss <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] make inode reclaim synchronise with xfs_iflush_done()
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 18:20:16 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080207072016.GR155407@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47AA86E5.5030804@sgi.com>
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 03:19:49PM +1100, Lachlan McIlroy wrote:
> On a forced shutdown, xfs_finish_reclaim() will skip flushing the inode.
> If the inode flush lock is not already held and there is an outstanding
> xfs_iflush_done() then we might free the inode prematurely. By acquiring
> and releasing the flush lock we will synchronise with xfs_iflush_done().
Looks fine.
Cheers,
Dave.
--
Dave Chinner
Principal Engineer
SGI Australian Software Group
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2008-02-07 4:19 [PATCH V2] make inode reclaim synchronise with xfs_iflush_done() Lachlan McIlroy
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