From: Kamal Dasu <kdasu.kdev@gmail.com>
To: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] xfs: fix deadlock in xfs_rtfree_extent with kernel v2.6.37
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 09:22:05 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <33365485.post@talk.nabble.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120219224118.GA31535@infradead.org>
Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
> I think you're better off fixing this problem like I did for the
> allocation side, that is:
>
> - remove the xfs_ilock and xfs_trans_ijoin (or probably still
> xfs_trans_iget in your version) from xfs_rtfree_extent, and
> instead add asserts that the inode is locked and has an inode_item
> attach to it.
> - in xfs_bunmapi if we are dealing with an inode with the rt flag
> bump the reference count on the inode there and attach it to the
> transaction before calling into xfs_bmap_del_extent, similar to
> what we do in xfs_bmap_rtalloc.
>
I will make the change and test and send the new version of the patch.
BTW when you say reference counting the inode do you mean I should call
xfs_trans_ijoin_ref().
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-17 22:46 [PATCH 0/4] xfs: resurrect realtime subvolume support on kernel 2.6.37 kdasu
2012-02-17 22:51 ` [PATCH 1/4] xfs: only lock the rt bitmap inode once per allocation kdasu
2012-02-17 22:55 ` [PATCH 2/4] xfs: fix xfs_get_extsz_hint for a zero extent size hint kdasu
2012-02-17 22:58 ` [PATCH 3/4] xfs: add lockdep annotations for the rt inodes kdasu
2012-02-17 23:00 ` [PATCH 4/4] xfs: fix deadlock in xfs_rtfree_extent with kernel v2.6.37 kdasu
2012-02-19 22:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-02-21 17:22 ` Kamal Dasu [this message]
2012-02-23 16:52 ` [PATCH 4/4] V2 " Kamal Dasu
2012-02-25 9:40 ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-02-25 15:46 ` Kamal Dasu
2012-02-28 8:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
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