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authorTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>2011-03-25 21:15:11 +0300
committerTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>2011-03-27 19:48:07 +0400
commit4d65c520fb4abed970069d18c119cfe85624f46d (patch)
tree74671eb263380317f1e4a958a6a7f73749e98eec /fs
parent16c29dafcc86024048f1dbb8349d31cb22c7c55a (diff)
downloadlinux-4d65c520fb4abed970069d18c119cfe85624f46d.tar.xz
NFS: Fix a hang in the writeback path
Now that the inode scalability patches have been merged, it is no longer safe to call igrab() under the inode->i_lock. Now that we no longer call nfs_clear_request() until the nfs_page is being freed, we know that we are always holding a reference to the nfs_open_context, which again holds a reference to the path, and so the inode cannot be freed until the last nfs_page has been removed from the radix tree and freed. We can therefore skip the igrab()/iput() altogether. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/nfs/pagelist.c4
-rw-r--r--fs/nfs/write.c13
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/fs/nfs/pagelist.c b/fs/nfs/pagelist.c
index 87a593c2b055..c80add6e2213 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/pagelist.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/pagelist.c
@@ -135,14 +135,14 @@ void nfs_clear_page_tag_locked(struct nfs_page *req)
nfs_unlock_request(req);
}
-/**
+/*
* nfs_clear_request - Free up all resources allocated to the request
* @req:
*
* Release page and open context resources associated with a read/write
* request after it has completed.
*/
-void nfs_clear_request(struct nfs_page *req)
+static void nfs_clear_request(struct nfs_page *req)
{
struct page *page = req->wb_page;
struct nfs_open_context *ctx = req->wb_context;
diff --git a/fs/nfs/write.c b/fs/nfs/write.c
index 85d75254328e..af0c6279a4a7 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/write.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/write.c
@@ -389,11 +389,8 @@ static int nfs_inode_add_request(struct inode *inode, struct nfs_page *req)
spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
error = radix_tree_insert(&nfsi->nfs_page_tree, req->wb_index, req);
BUG_ON(error);
- if (!nfsi->npages) {
- igrab(inode);
- if (nfs_have_delegation(inode, FMODE_WRITE))
- nfsi->change_attr++;
- }
+ if (!nfsi->npages && nfs_have_delegation(inode, FMODE_WRITE))
+ nfsi->change_attr++;
set_bit(PG_MAPPED, &req->wb_flags);
SetPagePrivate(req->wb_page);
set_page_private(req->wb_page, (unsigned long)req);
@@ -423,11 +420,7 @@ static void nfs_inode_remove_request(struct nfs_page *req)
clear_bit(PG_MAPPED, &req->wb_flags);
radix_tree_delete(&nfsi->nfs_page_tree, req->wb_index);
nfsi->npages--;
- if (!nfsi->npages) {
- spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
- iput(inode);
- } else
- spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
+ spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
nfs_release_request(req);
}