Now that we reject direct reclaim in addition to always using GFP_NOFS allocation there's no chance we'll ever end up in ->writepage with PF_FSTRANS set. Add a WARN_ON if we hit this case, and stop checking if we'd actually need to start a transaction. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Index: linux-2.6/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c 2011-04-27 20:51:57.503817127 +0200 +++ linux-2.6/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c 2011-04-27 20:53:02.186800044 +0200 @@ -906,7 +906,6 @@ xfs_vm_writepage( struct writeback_control *wbc) { struct inode *inode = page->mapping->host; - int delalloc, unwritten; struct buffer_head *bh, *head; struct xfs_bmbt_irec imap; xfs_ioend_t *ioend = NULL, *iohead = NULL; @@ -938,15 +937,10 @@ xfs_vm_writepage( goto redirty; /* - * We need a transaction if there are delalloc or unwritten buffers - * on the page. - * - * If we need a transaction and the process flags say we are already - * in a transaction, or no IO is allowed then mark the page dirty - * again and leave the page as is. + * Given that we do not allow direct reclaim to call us we should + * never be called while in a filesystem transaction. */ - xfs_count_page_state(page, &delalloc, &unwritten); - if ((current->flags & PF_FSTRANS) && (delalloc || unwritten)) + if (WARN_ON(current->flags & PF_FSTRANS)) goto redirty; /* Is this page beyond the end of the file? */ _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs