On Sat, 3 Mar 2012 21:25:55 +0800
Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > get_page() looks the perfect solution to verify if the struct inode
> > > pointer (w/o igrab) is still live and valid.
> > >
> > > [...upon rethinking...] Oh but still we need to lock some page to pin
> > > the inode during the writeout. Then there is the dilemma: if the page
> > > is locked, we effectively keep it from being written out...
> >
> > No, all you need to do is to structure the code so that after the page
> > gets unlocked, the kernel thread does not touch the address_space. So
> > the processing within the kthread is along the lines of
> >
> > writearound(locked_page)
> > {
> > write some pages preceding locked_page; /* touches address_space */
>
> It seems the above line will lead to ABBA deadlock.
>
> At least btrfs will lock a number of pages in lock_delalloc_pages().
Well, this code locks multiple pages too. I forget what I did about
that - probably trylock. Dirty pages aren't locked for very long.
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