xfs: do not write the buffer from xfs_iflush
Instead of writing the buffer directly from inside xfs_iflush return it to
the caller and let the caller decide what to do with the buffer. Also
remove the pincount check in xfs_iflush that all non-blocking callers already
implement and the now unused flags parameter.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_sync.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_sync.c
index 7b2bccc..468c3c0 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_sync.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_sync.c
@@ -648,10 +648,6 @@
* (*) dgc: I don't think the clean, pinned state is possible but it gets
* handled anyway given the order of checks implemented.
*
- * As can be seen from the table, the return value of xfs_iflush() is not
- * sufficient to correctly decide the reclaim action here. The checks in
- * xfs_iflush() might look like duplicates, but they are not.
- *
* Also, because we get the flush lock first, we know that any inode that has
* been flushed delwri has had the flush completed by the time we check that
* the inode is clean.
@@ -679,7 +675,8 @@
struct xfs_perag *pag,
int sync_mode)
{
- int error;
+ struct xfs_buf *bp = NULL;
+ int error;
restart:
error = 0;
@@ -728,29 +725,33 @@
/*
* Now we have an inode that needs flushing.
*
- * We do a nonblocking flush here even if we are doing a SYNC_WAIT
- * reclaim as we can deadlock with inode cluster removal.
+ * Note that xfs_iflush will never block on the inode buffer lock, as
* xfs_ifree_cluster() can lock the inode buffer before it locks the
- * ip->i_lock, and we are doing the exact opposite here. As a result,
- * doing a blocking xfs_itobp() to get the cluster buffer will result
+ * ip->i_lock, and we are doing the exact opposite here. As a result,
+ * doing a blocking xfs_itobp() to get the cluster buffer would result
* in an ABBA deadlock with xfs_ifree_cluster().
*
* As xfs_ifree_cluser() must gather all inodes that are active in the
* cache to mark them stale, if we hit this case we don't actually want
* to do IO here - we want the inode marked stale so we can simply
- * reclaim it. Hence if we get an EAGAIN error on a SYNC_WAIT flush,
- * just unlock the inode, back off and try again. Hopefully the next
- * pass through will see the stale flag set on the inode.
+ * reclaim it. Hence if we get an EAGAIN error here, just unlock the
+ * inode, back off and try again. Hopefully the next pass through will
+ * see the stale flag set on the inode.
*/
- error = xfs_iflush(ip, SYNC_TRYLOCK | sync_mode);
+ error = xfs_iflush(ip, &bp);
if (error == EAGAIN) {
xfs_iunlock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_EXCL);
/* backoff longer than in xfs_ifree_cluster */
delay(2);
goto restart;
}
- xfs_iflock(ip);
+ if (!error) {
+ error = xfs_bwrite(bp);
+ xfs_buf_relse(bp);
+ }
+
+ xfs_iflock(ip);
reclaim:
xfs_ifunlock(ip);
xfs_iunlock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_EXCL);