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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] xfs: remove log force from xfs_buf_trylock()
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 08:53:24 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130211215324.GG8257@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1360595302-15865-3-git-send-email-bfoster@redhat.com>

On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 10:08:22AM -0500, Brian Foster wrote:
> The trylock log force invoked via xfs_buf_item_push() can attempt
> to acquire xa_lock, thus leading to a recursion bug when called
> with xa_lock held.
> 
> This log force was originally added to xfs_buf_trylock() to address
> xfsaild stalls due to pinned and stale buffers. Since the addition
> of this behavior, the log item pushing code had been reworked to
> detect and track pinned items to inform xfsaild to issue a log
> force itself when necessary. As such, the log force on trylock
> failure is redundant and safe to remove.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>

Looks good.

Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>

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Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-11 21:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-11 15:08 [PATCH v4 0/2] fix spinlock recursion on xa_lock in xfs_buf_item_push Brian Foster
2013-02-11 15:08 ` [PATCH v4 1/2] xfs: recheck buffer pinned status after push trylock failure Brian Foster
2013-02-11 21:53   ` Dave Chinner
2013-02-11 15:08 ` [PATCH v4 2/2] xfs: remove log force from xfs_buf_trylock() Brian Foster
2013-02-11 21:53   ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2013-02-14 23:32 ` [PATCH v4 0/2] fix spinlock recursion on xa_lock in xfs_buf_item_push Ben Myers

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