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<title>linux.git/fs/fs-writeback.c, branch v2.6.35-rc4</title>
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<title>writeback: fix pin_sb_for_writeback</title>
<updated>2010-06-11T10:58:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
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<published>2010-06-09T13:31:01+00:00</published>
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We need to check for s_instances to make sure we don't bother working
against a filesystem that is beeing unmounted, and we need to call
put_super to make sure a superblock is freed when we race against
umount.  Also no need to keep sb_lock after we got a reference on it.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
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We need to check for s_instances to make sure we don't bother working
against a filesystem that is beeing unmounted, and we need to call
put_super to make sure a superblock is freed when we race against
umount.  Also no need to keep sb_lock after we got a reference on it.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
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<title>writeback: add missing requeue_io in writeback_inodes_wb</title>
<updated>2010-06-11T10:58:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
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<published>2010-06-09T12:28:43+00:00</published>
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In "writeback: fix writeback_inodes_wb from writeback_inodes_sb" I
accidentally removed the requeue_io if we need to skip a superblock
because we can't pin it.  Add it back, otherwise we're getting spurious
lockups after multiple xfstests runs.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
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In "writeback: fix writeback_inodes_wb from writeback_inodes_sb" I
accidentally removed the requeue_io if we need to skip a superblock
because we can't pin it.  Add it back, otherwise we're getting spurious
lockups after multiple xfstests runs.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
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<title>writeback: simplify and split bdi_start_writeback</title>
<updated>2010-06-11T10:58:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
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<published>2010-06-08T16:15:15+00:00</published>
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bdi_start_writeback now never gets a superblock passed, so we can just remove
that case.  And to further untangle the code and flatten the call stack
split it into two trivial helpers for it's two callers.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
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bdi_start_writeback now never gets a superblock passed, so we can just remove
that case.  And to further untangle the code and flatten the call stack
split it into two trivial helpers for it's two callers.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>writeback: simplify wakeup_flusher_threads</title>
<updated>2010-06-11T10:58:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
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<published>2010-06-08T16:15:07+00:00</published>
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bdi_writeback_all only has one caller, so fold it to simplify the code and
flatten the call stack.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
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bdi_writeback_all only has one caller, so fold it to simplify the code and
flatten the call stack.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
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<title>writeback: fix writeback_inodes_wb from writeback_inodes_sb</title>
<updated>2010-06-11T10:58:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2010-06-08T16:14:58+00:00</published>
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When we call writeback_inodes_wb from writeback_inodes_sb we always have
s_umount held, which currently makes the whole operation a no-op.

But if we are called to write out inodes for a specific superblock we always
have s_umount held, so replace the incorrect logic checking for WB_SYNC_ALL
which only worked by coincidence with the proper check for an explicit
superblock argument.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
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When we call writeback_inodes_wb from writeback_inodes_sb we always have
s_umount held, which currently makes the whole operation a no-op.

But if we are called to write out inodes for a specific superblock we always
have s_umount held, so replace the incorrect logic checking for WB_SYNC_ALL
which only worked by coincidence with the proper check for an explicit
superblock argument.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
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<title>writeback: enforce s_umount locking in writeback_inodes_sb</title>
<updated>2010-06-11T10:58:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2010-06-08T16:14:51+00:00</published>
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Make sure that not only sync_filesystem but all callers of writeback_inodes_sb
have the superblock protected against remount.  As-is this disables all
functionality for these callers, but the next patch relies on this locking to
fix writeback_inodes_sb for sync_filesystem.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
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Make sure that not only sync_filesystem but all callers of writeback_inodes_sb
have the superblock protected against remount.  As-is this disables all
functionality for these callers, but the next patch relies on this locking to
fix writeback_inodes_sb for sync_filesystem.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>writeback: queue work on stack in writeback_inodes_sb</title>
<updated>2010-06-11T10:58:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2010-06-08T16:14:43+00:00</published>
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If we want to rely on s_umount in the caller we need to wait for completion
of the I/O submission before returning to the caller.  Refactor
bdi_sync_writeback into a bdi_queue_work_onstack helper and use it for this
case.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
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If we want to rely on s_umount in the caller we need to wait for completion
of the I/O submission before returning to the caller.  Refactor
bdi_sync_writeback into a bdi_queue_work_onstack helper and use it for this
case.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>writeback: fix writeback completion notifications</title>
<updated>2010-06-11T10:58:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2010-06-08T16:14:34+00:00</published>
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The code dealing with bdi_work-&gt;state and completion of a bdi_work is a
major mess currently.  This patch makes sure we directly use one set of
flags to deal with it, and use it consistently, which means:

 - always notify about completion from the rcu callback.  We only ever
   wait for it from on-stack callers, so this simplification does not
   even cause a theoretical slowdown currently.  It also makes sure we
   don't miss out on the notification if we ever add other callers to
   wait for it.
 - make earlier completion notification depending on the on-stack
   allocation, not the sync mode.  If we introduce new callers that
   want to do WB_SYNC_NONE writeback from on-stack callers this will
   be nessecary.

Also rename bdi_wait_on_work_clear to bdi_wait_on_work_done and inline
a few small functions into their only caller to make the code
understandable.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
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The code dealing with bdi_work-&gt;state and completion of a bdi_work is a
major mess currently.  This patch makes sure we directly use one set of
flags to deal with it, and use it consistently, which means:

 - always notify about completion from the rcu callback.  We only ever
   wait for it from on-stack callers, so this simplification does not
   even cause a theoretical slowdown currently.  It also makes sure we
   don't miss out on the notification if we ever add other callers to
   wait for it.
 - make earlier completion notification depending on the on-stack
   allocation, not the sync mode.  If we introduce new callers that
   want to do WB_SYNC_NONE writeback from on-stack callers this will
   be nessecary.

Also rename bdi_wait_on_work_clear to bdi_wait_on_work_done and inline
a few small functions into their only caller to make the code
understandable.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'master' into for-linus</title>
<updated>2010-06-01T10:42:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>jaxboe@fusionio.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-06-01T10:42:12+00:00</published>
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Conflicts:
	fs/pipe.c

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
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Conflicts:
	fs/pipe.c

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Revert "writeback: fix WB_SYNC_NONE writeback from umount"</title>
<updated>2010-06-01T09:08:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>jaxboe@fusionio.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-06-01T09:08:43+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit e913fc825dc685a444cb4c1d0f9d32f372f59861.

We are investigating a hang associated with the WB_SYNC_NONE changes,
so revert them for now.

Conflicts:

	fs/fs-writeback.c
	mm/page-writeback.c

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
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This reverts commit e913fc825dc685a444cb4c1d0f9d32f372f59861.

We are investigating a hang associated with the WB_SYNC_NONE changes,
so revert them for now.

Conflicts:

	fs/fs-writeback.c
	mm/page-writeback.c

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
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