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* [PATCH] fix __writeback_single_inode WARN_ONAndrea Arcangeli2005-10-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When the inode count is zero in inode writeback, the WARN_ON(!(inode->i_state & I_WILL_FREE)); is broken, and needs to test for either I_WILL_FREE|I_FREEING. When the inode is in I_FREEING state, it's already out of the visibility of the vm so it can't be freed so it doesn't require the __iget and the generic_delete_inode path can call the sync internally to the lowlevel fs callback during the last iput. So the inode being in I_FREEING is also a valid condition for calling the sync with i_count == 0. The specific stack trace is this: 0xc00000007b8fb6e0 0xc00000000010118c .__writeback_single_inode +0x5c 0xc00000007b8fb6e0 0xc0000000001014dc (lr) .sync_inode +0x3c 0xc00000007b8fb790 0xc0000000001014dc .sync_inode +0x3c 0xc00000007b8fb820 0xc0000000001a5020 .ext2_sync_inode +0x64 0xc00000007b8fb8f0 0xc0000000001a65b4 .ext2_truncate +0x3f8 0xc00000007b8fba40 0xc0000000001a6940 .ext2_delete_inode +0xdc 0xc00000007b8fbac0 0xc0000000000f7a5c .generic_delete_inode +0x124 0xc00000007b8fbb50 0xc0000000000f5fe0 .iput +0xb8 0xc00000007b8fbbe0 0xc0000000000e9fd4 .sys_unlink +0x2a8 0xc00000007b8fbd10 0xc00000000001048c .ret_from_syscall_1 +0x0 Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] fix nr_unused accounting, and avoid recursing in iput with ↵Andrea Arcangeli2005-10-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I_WILL_FREE set list_move(&inode->i_list, &inode_in_use); } else { list_move(&inode->i_list, &inode_unused); + inodes_stat.nr_unused++; } } wake_up_inode(inode); Are you sure the above diff is correct? It was added somewhere between 2.6.5 and 2.6.8. I think it's wrong. The only way I can imagine the i_count to be zero in the above path, is that I_WILL_FREE is set. And if I_WILL_FREE is set, then we must not increase nr_unused. So I believe the above change is buggy and it will definitely overstate the number of unused inodes and it should be backed out. Note that __writeback_single_inode before calling __sync_single_inode, can drop the spinlock and we can have both the dirty and locked bitflags clear here: spin_unlock(&inode_lock); __wait_on_inode(inode); iput(inode); XXXXXXX spin_lock(&inode_lock); } use inode again here a construct like the above makes zero sense from a reference counting standpoint. Either we don't ever use the inode again after the iput, or the inode_lock should be taken _before_ executing the iput (i.e. a __iput would be required). Taking the inode_lock after iput means the iget was useless if we keep using the inode after the iput. So the only chance the 2.6 was safe to call __writeback_single_inode with the i_count == 0, is that I_WILL_FREE is set (I_WILL_FREE will prevent the VM to free the inode in XXXXX). Potentially calling the above iput with I_WILL_FREE was also wrong because it would recurse in iput_final (the second mainline bug). The below (untested) patch fixes the nr_unused accounting, avoids recursing in iput when I_WILL_FREE is set and makes sure (with the BUG_ON) that we don't corrupt memory and that all holders that don't set I_WILL_FREE, keeps a reference on the inode! Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] O(1) sb list traversing on syncsKirill Korotaev2005-06-23
| | | | | | | | | | | This patch removes O(n^2) super block loops in sync_inodes(), sync_filesystems() etc. in favour of using __put_super_and_need_restart() which I introduced earlier. We faced a noticably long freezes on sb syncing when there are thousands of super blocks in the system. Signed-Off-By: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] DocBook: fix some descriptionsMartin Waitz2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | Some KernelDoc descriptions are updated to match the current code. No code changes. Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds2005-04-16
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!