Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/mmiotrace

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.h b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.h
index 841d7883528d..f948ec7ba9a4 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.h
+++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.h
@@ -66,6 +66,25 @@ typedef enum {
         _XBF_PAGES = (1 << 18),     /* backed by refcounted pages          */
         _XBF_RUN_QUEUES = (1 << 19),/* run block device task queue         */
         _XBF_DELWRI_Q = (1 << 21),   /* buffer on delwri queue             */
+
+        /*
+         * Special flag for supporting metadata blocks smaller than a FSB.
+         *
+         * In this case we can have multiple xfs_buf_t on a single page and
+         * need to lock out concurrent xfs_buf_t readers as they only
+         * serialise access to the buffer.
+         *
+         * If the FSB size >= PAGE_CACHE_SIZE case, we have no serialisation
+         * between reads of the page. Hence we can have one thread read the
+         * page and modify it, but then race with another thread that thinks
+         * the page is not up-to-date and hence reads it again.
+         *
+         * The result is that the first modifcation to the page is lost.
+         * This sort of AGF/AGI reading race can happen when unlinking inodes
+         * that require truncation and results in the AGI unlinked list
+         * modifications being lost.
+         */
+        _XBF_PAGE_LOCKED = (1 << 22),
 } xfs_buf_flags_t;
 
 typedef enum {