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author | Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com> | 2010-04-14 11:58:16 -0400 |
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committer | Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> | 2010-04-14 11:48:05 -0400 |
commit | 1a0eae8848cde6e0734360f6456496c995ee1e23 (patch) | |
tree | 536f944468ef5bc6f47ec09325422adbc5a3907a /fs/gfs2/export.c | |
parent | 602c89d2e3e8652f94a697c9a919be739b9bcdd5 (diff) |
GFS2: glock livelock
This patch fixes a couple gfs2 problems with the reclaiming of
unlinked dinodes. First, there were a couple of livelocks where
everything would come to a halt waiting for a glock that was
seemingly held by a process that no longer existed. In fact, the
process did exist, it just had the wrong pid number in the holder
information. Second, there was a lock ordering problem between
inode locking and glock locking. Third, glock/inode contention
could sometimes cause inodes to be improperly marked invalid by
iget_failed.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/gfs2/export.c')
-rw-r--r-- | fs/gfs2/export.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/gfs2/export.c b/fs/gfs2/export.c index d15876e9aa26..d81bc7e90e98 100644 --- a/fs/gfs2/export.c +++ b/fs/gfs2/export.c | |||
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ static struct dentry *gfs2_get_dentry(struct super_block *sb, | |||
169 | if (error) | 169 | if (error) |
170 | goto fail; | 170 | goto fail; |
171 | 171 | ||
172 | inode = gfs2_inode_lookup(sb, DT_UNKNOWN, inum->no_addr, 0, 0); | 172 | inode = gfs2_inode_lookup(sb, DT_UNKNOWN, inum->no_addr, 0); |
173 | if (IS_ERR(inode)) { | 173 | if (IS_ERR(inode)) { |
174 | error = PTR_ERR(inode); | 174 | error = PTR_ERR(inode); |
175 | goto fail; | 175 | goto fail; |