[folded-merged] writeback-do-not-sync-data-dirtied-after-sync-start-fix-2.patch removed from -mm tree

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



Subject: [folded-merged] writeback-do-not-sync-data-dirtied-after-sync-start-fix-2.patch removed from -mm tree
To: jack@xxxxxxx,dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx,fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx,mm-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
From: akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 14:35:43 -0800


The patch titled
     Subject: writeback-do-not-sync-data-dirtied-after-sync-start-fix-2.txt
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     writeback-do-not-sync-data-dirtied-after-sync-start-fix-2.patch

This patch was dropped because it was folded into writeback-do-not-sync-data-dirtied-after-sync-start.patch

------------------------------------------------------
From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Subject: writeback-do-not-sync-data-dirtied-after-sync-start-fix-2.txt

On Wed 09-10-13 14:21:25, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Oct 2013 17:03:25 +0200 Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
> > Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2013 15:41:50 +0200
> > Subject: [PATCH] writeback: Use older_than_this_is_set instead of magic
> >  older_than_this == 0
> >
> > Currently we use 0 as a special value of work->older_than_this to
> > indicate that wb_writeback() should set work->older_that_this to current
> > time. This works but it is a bit magic. So use a special flag in
> > work_struct for that.
>
> OK.
>
> > -	if (!work->older_than_this)
> > +	if (!work->older_than_this_is_set)
> > 		work->older_than_this = jiffies;
>
> It would be logical although presumably unneeded to set
> older_than_this_is_set here?
  Yes. Updated.

> > Also fixup writeback from workqueue rescuer to include all inodes.
>
> There's nothing in the patch which matches this sentence?
  The sentence is about the hunk below. writeback_inodes_wb() is special in
that it directly calls queue_io() (everything else goes through
wb_writeback()) and my previous patch thus resulted in using 0 as an
older_than_this value => likely we wouldn't queue any inodes for writeback.

I've added WARN_ON_ONCE into move_expired_inodes() to increase a chance of
catching such mistakes in future (although in this particular case it
wouldn't really help because writeback_inodes_wb() gets hardly ever
called).

Currently we use 0 as a special value of work->older_than_this to
indicate that wb_writeback() should set work->older_that_this to current
time. This works but it is a bit magic. So use a special flag in
work_struct for that.

Also fixup writeback from workqueue rescuer (writeback_inodes_wb()) to
include all inodes. Currently it would use 0 as an older_than_this value
thus queue_io() would likely not queue any inodes for writeback.


Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

 fs/fs-writeback.c |    5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -puN fs/fs-writeback.c~writeback-do-not-sync-data-dirtied-after-sync-start-fix-2 fs/fs-writeback.c
--- a/fs/fs-writeback.c~writeback-do-not-sync-data-dirtied-after-sync-start-fix-2
+++ a/fs/fs-writeback.c
@@ -251,6 +251,7 @@ static int move_expired_inodes(struct li
 	int do_sb_sort = 0;
 	int moved = 0;
 
+	WARN_ON_ONCE(!work->older_than_this_is_set);
 	while (!list_empty(delaying_queue)) {
 		inode = wb_inode(delaying_queue->prev);
 		if (inode_dirtied_after(inode, work->older_than_this))
@@ -800,8 +801,10 @@ static long wb_writeback(struct bdi_writ
 	struct inode *inode;
 	long progress;
 
-	if (!work->older_than_this_is_set)
+	if (!work->older_than_this_is_set) {
 		work->older_than_this = jiffies;
+		work->older_than_this_is_set = 1;
+	}
 
 	spin_lock(&wb->list_lock);
 	for (;;) {
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from jack@xxxxxxx are

origin.patch
ocfs2-dont-spam-on-edquot.patch
ocfs2-simplify-ocfs2_invalidatepage-and-ocfs2_releasepage.patch
writeback-do-not-sync-data-dirtied-after-sync-start.patch
writeback-do-not-sync-data-dirtied-after-sync-start-fix-3.patch
rbtree-fix-rbtree_postorder_for_each_entry_safe-iterator.patch

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html




[Index of Archives]     [Kernel Newbies FAQ]     [Kernel Archive]     [IETF Annouce]     [DCCP]     [Netdev]     [Networking]     [Security]     [Bugtraq]     [Photo]     [Yosemite]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Linux SCSI]

  Powered by Linux