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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Ajeet Yadav <ajeet.yadav.77@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: "xfs: fix error handling for synchronous writes" revisited
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 06:09:16 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110810100916.GA27094@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAB4K4y4Ns5woUJyPv_NuW0GYSb5ZcFkqnF-DxRB1MESibc1Knw@mail.gmail.com>

Looks good.

Alex, any chance to pick this one up for 3.1?


Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 01:12:59PM +0530, Ajeet Yadav wrote:
> xfs: fix for hang during synchronous buffer write error
> 
> If removed storage while synchronous buffer write underway,
> "xfslogd" hangs.
> 
> Detailed log http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2011-07/msg00740.html
> 
> Related work bfc60177f8ab509bc225becbb58f7e53a0e33e81
> "xfs: fix error handling for synchronous writes"
> 
> Given that xfs_bwrite actually does the shutdown already after
> waiting for the b_iodone completion and given that we actually
> found that calling xfs_force_shutdown from inside
> xfs_buf_iodone_callbacks was a major contributor the problem
> it better to drop this call.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ajeet Yadav <ajeet.yadav.77@gmail.com>
> 
> diff -Nurp -X linux/Documentation/dontdiff linux/fs/xfs/xfs_buf_item.c
> linux-Dirty/fs/xfs/xfs_buf_item.c
> --- linux/fs/xfs/xfs_buf_item.c 2011-06-09 10:05:18.000000000 +0530
> +++ linux-Dirty/fs/xfs/xfs_buf_item.c   2011-07-28 15:53:51.000000000 +0530
> @@ -1028,7 +1028,6 @@ xfs_buf_iodone_callbacks(
>         XFS_BUF_UNDELAYWRITE(bp);
> 
>         trace_xfs_buf_error_relse(bp, _RET_IP_);
> -       xfs_force_shutdown(mp, SHUTDOWN_META_IO_ERROR);
> 
>  do_callbacks:
>         xfs_buf_do_callbacks(bp, lip);
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-10 10:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-28 10:51 "xfs: fix error handling for synchronous writes" revisited Ajeet Yadav
2011-07-28 14:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-07-29  7:42   ` Ajeet Yadav
2011-08-10 10:09     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2011-08-10 13:20       ` Alex Elder

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