On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 10:30:05PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote: > On 1/20/12 2:34 PM, Jan Kara wrote: > > Replace racy xfs_wait_for_freeze() check in xfs_file_aio_write() with > > a reliable sb_start_write() - sb_end_write() locking. > > Here's what I'm running with now. With this and my modified > patch6, I can pass xfstests 068 on xfs. Just a quick question this raises - is .splice_write() protected? Cheers, Dave. > > -Eric > > > > diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c > index 7e5bc87..f1cacdc 100644 > --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c > +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c > @@ -874,11 +874,11 @@ xfs_file_aio_write( > if (ocount == 0) > return 0; > > - xfs_wait_for_freeze(ip->i_mount, SB_FREEZE_WRITE); > - > if (XFS_FORCED_SHUTDOWN(ip->i_mount)) > return -EIO; > > + sb_start_write(inode->i_sb, SB_FREEZE_WRITE); > + This check really should go before the shutdown check - if the filesystem shuts down while we are freezing or attempting to freeze, we want to abort the write after we are woken.... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs