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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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  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-21 17:22 UTC|newest]

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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