The special handling of PF_MEMALLOC callers in ext3_write_inode()
shouldn't be necessary as there shouldn't be any. Warn about it. Also
update comment before the function as it seems somewhat outdated.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
---
fs/ext3/inode.c | 23 +++++++++++------------
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/ext3/inode.c b/fs/ext3/inode.c
index 491f022c476a..2fef98abb207 100644
--- a/fs/ext3/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext3/inode.c
@@ -3209,21 +3209,20 @@ out_brelse:
*
* We are called from a few places:
*
- * - Within generic_file_write() for O_SYNC files.
+ * - Within generic_file_aio_write() -> generic_write_sync() for O_SYNC files.
* Here, there will be no transaction running. We wait for any running
* transaction to commit.
*
- * - Within sys_sync(), kupdate and such.
- * We wait on commit, if tol to.
+ * - Within flush work (for sys_sync(), kupdate and such).
+ * We wait on commit, if told to.
*
- * - Within prune_icache() (PF_MEMALLOC == true)
- * Here we simply return. We can't afford to block kswapd on the
- * journal commit.
+ * - Within iput_final() -> write_inode_now()
+ * We wait on commit, if told to.
*
* In all cases it is actually safe for us to return without doing anything,
* because the inode has been copied into a raw inode buffer in
- * ext3_mark_inode_dirty(). This is a correctness thing for O_SYNC and for
- * knfsd.
+ * ext3_mark_inode_dirty(). This is a correctness thing for WB_SYNC_ALL
+ * writeback.
*
* Note that we are absolutely dependent upon all inode dirtiers doing the
* right thing: they *must* call mark_inode_dirty() after dirtying info in
@@ -3235,13 +3234,13 @@ out_brelse:
* stuff();
* inode->i_size = expr;
*
- * is in error because a kswapd-driven write_inode() could occur while
- * `stuff()' is running, and the new i_size will be lost. Plus the inode
- * will no longer be on the superblock's dirty inode list.
+ * is in error because write_inode() could occur while `stuff()' is running,
+ * and the new i_size will be lost. Plus the inode will no longer be on the
+ * superblock's dirty inode list.
*/
int ext3_write_inode(struct inode *inode, struct writeback_control *wbc)
{
- if (current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC)
+ if (WARN_ON_ONCE(current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC))
return 0;
if (ext3_journal_current_handle()) {
--
1.8.1.4
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