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> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> Index: xfs/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c =================================================================== --- xfs.orig/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c 2011-07-06 09:11:58.963268764 +0200 +++ xfs/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c 2011-07-06 09:12:22.466600907 +0200 @@ -895,11 +895,6 @@ out_invalidate: * For unwritten space on the page we need to start the conversion to * regular allocated space. * For any other dirty buffer heads on the page we should flush them. - * - * If we detect that a transaction would be required to flush the page, we - * have to check the process flags first, if we are already in a transaction - * or disk I/O during allocations is off, we need to fail the writepage and - * redirty the page. */ STATIC int xfs_vm_writepage( @@ -907,7 +902,6 @@ 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; @@ -939,15 +933,10 @@ 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