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author | Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com> | 2010-04-14 19:58:16 +0400 |
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committer | Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> | 2010-04-14 19:48:05 +0400 |
commit | 1a0eae8848cde6e0734360f6456496c995ee1e23 (patch) | |
tree | 536f944468ef5bc6f47ec09325422adbc5a3907a /fs/gfs2/inode.h | |
parent | 602c89d2e3e8652f94a697c9a919be739b9bcdd5 (diff) | |
download | linux-1a0eae8848cde6e0734360f6456496c995ee1e23.tar.xz |
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/inode.h')
-rw-r--r-- | fs/gfs2/inode.h | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/gfs2/inode.h b/fs/gfs2/inode.h index c341aaf67adb..e161461d4c57 100644 --- a/fs/gfs2/inode.h +++ b/fs/gfs2/inode.h @@ -83,8 +83,9 @@ static inline void gfs2_inum_out(const struct gfs2_inode *ip, extern void gfs2_set_iop(struct inode *inode); extern struct inode *gfs2_inode_lookup(struct super_block *sb, unsigned type, - u64 no_addr, u64 no_formal_ino, - int skip_freeing); + u64 no_addr, u64 no_formal_ino); +extern int gfs2_unlinked_inode_lookup(struct super_block *sb, u64 no_addr, + struct inode **inode); extern struct inode *gfs2_ilookup(struct super_block *sb, u64 no_addr); extern int gfs2_inode_refresh(struct gfs2_inode *ip); |