Hi,
> I delete the following patch
> "commit 3f31fddfa26b7594b44ff2b34f9a04ba409e0f91
> Author: Mingming Cao <cmm@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri Jul 25 01:46:22 2008 -0700
>
> jbd: fix race between free buffer and commit transaction
> "
> This patch is no longer needed because if race between freeing buffer
> and committing transaction functionality occurs and dio gets error,
> currently dio falls back to buffered IO by the following patch.
>
> commit 6ccfa806a9cfbbf1cd43d5b6aa47ef2c0eb518fd
> Author: Hisashi Hifumi <hifumi.hisashi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue Sep 2 14:35:40 2008 -0700
>
> VFS: fix dio write returning EIO when try_to_release_page fails
>
> Thanks.
>
> Signed-off-by: Hisashi Hifumi <hifumi.hisashi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
OK, makes sence. At least it has an advantage that we don't have to
wait for a transaction commit in DIO path.
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Honza
>
> diff -Nrup linux-2.6.30-rc8.org/fs/jbd/transaction.c linux-2.6.30-rc8.ext3_4/fs/jbd/transaction.c
> --- linux-2.6.30-rc8.org/fs/jbd/transaction.c 2009-06-04 16:26:26.000000000 +0900
> +++ linux-2.6.30-rc8.ext3_4/fs/jbd/transaction.c 2009-06-04 19:14:53.000000000 +0900
> @@ -1686,35 +1686,6 @@ out:
> return;
> }
>
> -/*
> - * journal_try_to_free_buffers() could race with journal_commit_transaction()
> - * The latter might still hold the a count on buffers when inspecting
> - * them on t_syncdata_list or t_locked_list.
> - *
> - * journal_try_to_free_buffers() will call this function to
> - * wait for the current transaction to finish syncing data buffers, before
> - * tryinf to free that buffer.
> - *
> - * Called with journal->j_state_lock held.
> - */
> -static void journal_wait_for_transaction_sync_data(journal_t *journal)
> -{
> - transaction_t *transaction = NULL;
> - tid_t tid;
> -
> - spin_lock(&journal->j_state_lock);
> - transaction = journal->j_committing_transaction;
> -
> - if (!transaction) {
> - spin_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
> - return;
> - }
> -
> - tid = transaction->t_tid;
> - spin_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
> - log_wait_commit(journal, tid);
> -}
> -
> /**
> * int journal_try_to_free_buffers() - try to free page buffers.
> * @journal: journal for operation
> @@ -1786,25 +1757,6 @@ int journal_try_to_free_buffers(journal_
>
> ret = try_to_free_buffers(page);
>
> - /*
> - * There are a number of places where journal_try_to_free_buffers()
> - * could race with journal_commit_transaction(), the later still
> - * holds the reference to the buffers to free while processing them.
> - * try_to_free_buffers() failed to free those buffers. Some of the
> - * caller of releasepage() request page buffers to be dropped, otherwise
> - * treat the fail-to-free as errors (such as generic_file_direct_IO())
> - *
> - * So, if the caller of try_to_release_page() wants the synchronous
> - * behaviour(i.e make sure buffers are dropped upon return),
> - * let's wait for the current transaction to finish flush of
> - * dirty data buffers, then try to free those buffers again,
> - * with the journal locked.
> - */
> - if (ret == 0 && (gfp_mask & __GFP_WAIT) && (gfp_mask & __GFP_FS)) {
> - journal_wait_for_transaction_sync_data(journal);
> - ret = try_to_free_buffers(page);
> - }
> -
> busy:
> return ret;
> }
> diff -Nrup linux-2.6.30-rc8.org/fs/jbd2/transaction.c linux-2.6.30-rc8.ext3_4/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
> --- linux-2.6.30-rc8.org/fs/jbd2/transaction.c 2009-06-04 16:26:26.000000000 +0900
> +++ linux-2.6.30-rc8.ext3_4/fs/jbd2/transaction.c 2009-06-04 19:17:12.000000000 +0900
> @@ -1547,36 +1547,6 @@ out:
> return;
> }
>
> -/*
> - * jbd2_journal_try_to_free_buffers() could race with
> - * jbd2_journal_commit_transaction(). The later might still hold the
> - * reference count to the buffers when inspecting them on
> - * t_syncdata_list or t_locked_list.
> - *
> - * jbd2_journal_try_to_free_buffers() will call this function to
> - * wait for the current transaction to finish syncing data buffers, before
> - * try to free that buffer.
> - *
> - * Called with journal->j_state_lock hold.
> - */
> -static void jbd2_journal_wait_for_transaction_sync_data(journal_t *journal)
> -{
> - transaction_t *transaction;
> - tid_t tid;
> -
> - spin_lock(&journal->j_state_lock);
> - transaction = journal->j_committing_transaction;
> -
> - if (!transaction) {
> - spin_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
> - return;
> - }
> -
> - tid = transaction->t_tid;
> - spin_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
> - jbd2_log_wait_commit(journal, tid);
> -}
> -
> /**
> * int jbd2_journal_try_to_free_buffers() - try to free page buffers.
> * @journal: journal for operation
> @@ -1649,25 +1619,6 @@ int jbd2_journal_try_to_free_buffers(jou
>
> ret = try_to_free_buffers(page);
>
> - /*
> - * There are a number of places where jbd2_journal_try_to_free_buffers()
> - * could race with jbd2_journal_commit_transaction(), the later still
> - * holds the reference to the buffers to free while processing them.
> - * try_to_free_buffers() failed to free those buffers. Some of the
> - * caller of releasepage() request page buffers to be dropped, otherwise
> - * treat the fail-to-free as errors (such as generic_file_direct_IO())
> - *
> - * So, if the caller of try_to_release_page() wants the synchronous
> - * behaviour(i.e make sure buffers are dropped upon return),
> - * let's wait for the current transaction to finish flush of
> - * dirty data buffers, then try to free those buffers again,
> - * with the journal locked.
> - */
> - if (ret == 0 && (gfp_mask & __GFP_WAIT) && (gfp_mask & __GFP_FS)) {
> - jbd2_journal_wait_for_transaction_sync_data(journal);
> - ret = try_to_free_buffers(page);
> - }
> -
> busy:
> return ret;
> }
>
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