From: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/13] xfs: xfs_sync_data is redundant.
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2012 17:13:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <506B58F7.1020002@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121002205124.GS23520@dastard>
On 10/02/2012 04:51 PM, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 09:01:33AM -0400, Brian Foster wrote:
>> On 10/01/2012 08:44 PM, Brian Foster wrote:
>>> On 10/01/2012 08:10 PM, Dave Chinner wrote:
>> ...
>>>
...
>
> I don't think we can do an unconditional down_read() there, as the
> caller from xfs_create() already holds an i_mutex (the VFS holds the
> directory inode lock) and I'm pretty sure that s_umount is supposed
> to be outside per-inode locks.
>
> Given that where we are called we are inside a transaction for the
> create case, and inside mnt_want_write() protection for the buffered
> write case, the likelyhood of s_umount being held for write at
> ENOSPC is going to be non-existent at these call sites. Hence a
> down_read_trylock() will avoid lock ordering issues, but will almost
> always succeed and so be equivalent to down_read()....
>
Ok...
> /me modifies and runs 273 and the enospc xfstests group...
>
> Seems to work just fine, and no warnings. Patch below.
>
This passes 273 clean (save the xlog_verify_grant_tail message) for me
as well. Thanks.
Brian
> Cheers,
>
> Dave.
>
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Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-28 4:44 [PATCH V3 00/13] xfs: remove the xfssyncd mess Dave Chinner
2012-09-28 4:44 ` [PATCH 01/13] xfs: xfs_syncd_stop must die Dave Chinner
2012-09-28 4:44 ` [PATCH 02/13] xfs: rationalise xfs_mount_wq users Dave Chinner
2012-09-28 12:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-09-28 4:44 ` [PATCH 03/13] xfs: don't run the sync work if the filesystem is read-only Dave Chinner
2012-09-28 12:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-09-28 4:44 ` [PATCH 04/13] xfs: sync work is now only periodic log work Dave Chinner
2012-09-28 12:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-09-28 4:44 ` [PATCH 05/13] xfs: Bring some sanity to log unmounting Dave Chinner
2012-09-28 4:44 ` [PATCH 06/13] xfs: xfs_sync_data is redundant Dave Chinner
2012-09-28 12:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-10-01 17:44 ` Ben Myers
2012-10-02 0:14 ` Dave Chinner
2012-10-02 19:39 ` Ben Myers
2012-09-28 21:44 ` Mark Tinguely
2012-10-01 20:14 ` Brian Foster
2012-10-01 21:31 ` Mark Tinguely
2012-10-02 0:10 ` Dave Chinner
2012-10-02 0:44 ` Brian Foster
2012-10-02 13:01 ` Brian Foster
2012-10-02 20:51 ` Dave Chinner
2012-10-02 21:13 ` Brian Foster [this message]
2012-10-04 0:05 ` Ben Myers
2012-10-04 1:07 ` Dave Chinner
2012-10-02 13:22 ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-10-02 20:24 ` Dave Chinner
2012-10-02 20:25 ` Ben Myers
2012-09-28 4:44 ` [PATCH 07/13] xfs: syncd workqueue is no more Dave Chinner
2012-09-28 12:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-09-28 18:17 ` Mark Tinguely
2012-10-01 17:54 ` Ben Myers
2012-09-28 4:44 ` [PATCH 08/13] xfs: xfs_sync_fsdata is redundant Dave Chinner
2012-09-28 4:44 ` [PATCH 09/13] xfs: move xfs_quiesce_attr() into xfs_super.c Dave Chinner
2012-09-28 4:44 ` [PATCH 10/13] xfs: xfs_quiesce_attr() should quiesce the log like unmount Dave Chinner
2012-09-28 4:44 ` [PATCH 11/13] xfs: rename xfs_sync.[ch] to xfs_icache.[ch] Dave Chinner
2012-09-28 4:44 ` [PATCH 12/13] xfs: move inode locking functions to xfs_inode.c Dave Chinner
2012-09-28 4:44 ` [PATCH 13/13] xfs: remove xfs_iget.c Dave Chinner
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