Re: [PATCH 36/37] xfs: flush outstanding buffers on log mount failure

Mark Tinguely
2012-04-23T15:47:35Z

On 04/23/12 00:59, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner<dchinner@redhat.com>
>
> When we fail to mount the log in xfs_mountfs(), we tear down all the
> infrastructure we have already allocated. However, the process of
> mounting the log may have progressed to the point of reading,
> caching and modifying buffers in memory. Hence before we can free
> all the infrastructure, we have to flush and remove all the buffers
> from memory.
>
> Problem first reported by Eric Sandeen, later a different incarnation
> was reported by Ben Myers.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner<dchinner@redhat.com>
> ---

Looks good.

Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>