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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] xfs: fix xfs_mark_inode_dirty during umount
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 02:39:49 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110830063949.GA19262@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110830062416.GN3162@dastard>

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 04:24:16PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> >  xfs_mark_inode_dirty_sync(
> > @@ -82,6 +81,10 @@ xfs_mark_inode_dirty_sync(
> >  
> >  	if (!(inode->i_state & (I_WILL_FREE|I_FREEING)))
> >  		mark_inode_dirty_sync(inode);
> > +	else {
> > +		barrier();
> > +		ip->i_update_core = 1;
> > +	}
> >  }
> 
> Why the barrier()? Isn't that just a compiler barrier? If you are
> worried about catching the update vs clearing it in transaction
> commit, shouldn't that use smp_mb() instead (in both places)?

It's a blind copy & past from xfs_fs_dirty_inode.  The comments
there suggests it is for update ordering.

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-30  6:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-27  5:57 [PATCH 0/2] make sure to always update the inode size on umount Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-27  5:57 ` [PATCH 1/2] xfs: fix xfs_mark_inode_dirty during umount Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-30  6:24   ` Dave Chinner
2011-08-30  6:39     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2011-08-30  7:20       ` Dave Chinner
2011-08-30  7:27         ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-31 22:51           ` Dave Chinner
2011-08-27  5:57 ` [PATCH 2/2] xfs: fix ->write_inode return values Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-30  6:25   ` Dave Chinner

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