It helps a lot to know how redirty_tail() are called. Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <wfg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/fs-writeback.c | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- linux-2.6.23-rc2-mm2.orig/fs/fs-writeback.c +++ linux-2.6.23-rc2-mm2/fs/fs-writeback.c @@ -210,6 +210,11 @@ static int write_inode(struct inode *ino return 0; } +#define redirty_tail(inode) \ + do { \ + __redirty_tail(inode, __LINE__); \ + } while (0) + /* * Redirty an inode: set its when-it-was dirtied timestamp and move it to the * furthest end of its superblock's dirty-inode list. @@ -219,11 +224,14 @@ static int write_inode(struct inode *ino * the case then the inode must have been redirtied while it was being written * out and we don't reset its dirtied_when. */ -static void redirty_tail(struct inode *inode) +static void __redirty_tail(struct inode *inode, int line) { struct super_block *sb = inode->i_sb; check_dirty_inode(inode); + if (unlikely(sysctl_inode_debug)) + printk(KERN_DEBUG "redirtied inode %lu line %d\n", + inode->i_ino, line); inode->dirtied_when = jiffies; list_move(&inode->i_list, &sb->s_dirty); check_dirty_inode(inode); -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html