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  1. Aug 17, 2009
    • Christoph Hellwig's avatar
      xfs: fix locking in xfs_iget_cache_hit · bc990f5c
      Christoph Hellwig authored
      
      
      The locking in xfs_iget_cache_hit currently has numerous problems:
      
       - we clear the reclaim tag without i_flags_lock which protects
         modifications to it
       - we call inode_init_always which can sleep with pag_ici_lock
         held (this is oss.sgi.com BZ #819)
       - we acquire and drop i_flags_lock a lot and thus provide no
         consistency between the various flags we set/clear under it
      
      This patch fixes all that with a major revamp of the locking in
      the function.  The new version acquires i_flags_lock early and
      only drops it once we need to call into inode_init_always or before
      calling xfs_ilock.
      
      This patch fixes a bug seen in the wild where we race modifying the
      reclaim tag.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarFelix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarEric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarFelix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
      bc990f5c
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