Am 08.06.2015 um 12:07 schrieb Dongsheng Yang: > - ubifs_assert(mutex_is_locked(&ui->ui_mutex)); > if (!ui->dirty) { > + if (!locked) { > + /* > + * It's a little tricky here, there is only one > + * possible user of ubifs_dirty_inode did not do > + * a budget for this inode. At the same time, this > + * user is not holding the ui->ui_mutex. Then if > + * we found ui->ui_mutex is not locked, we can say: > + * we need to do a budget in ubifs_dirty_inode here. > + */ > + struct ubifs_budget_req req = { .dirtied_ino = 1, > + .dirtied_ino_d = ALIGN(ui->data_len, 8) }; > + > + ret = ubifs_budget_space(c, &req); > + if (ret) > + goto out; > + } So, this is the new case when ->dirty_inode() is called via generic_update_time()? Did you research whether you can detect that case also by looking at the flags parameter? I'd give I_DIRTY_TIME a try. This way you could get at least rid of the mutex_is_locked() usage. Thanks, //richard -- 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