Re: [patch v4 06/13] [PATCH 06/13] xfs: xfs_sync_data is redundant.

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On 10/05/12 12:18, Ben Myers wrote:
Index: xfs/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.h
===================================================================
--- xfs.orig/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.h
+++ xfs/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.h
@@ -198,7 +198,6 @@ typedef struct xfs_mount {
  #endif
  	struct xfs_mru_cache	*m_filestream;  /* per-mount filestream data */
  	struct delayed_work	m_reclaim_work;	/* background inode reclaim */
-	struct work_struct	m_flush_work;	/* background inode flush */
  	__int64_t		m_update_flags;	/* sb flags we need to update
  						   on the next remount,rw */
  	struct shrinker		m_inode_shrink;	/* inode reclaim shrinker */
@@ -381,6 +380,27 @@ extern int	xfs_dev_is_read_only(struct x

  extern void	xfs_set_low_space_thresholds(struct xfs_mount *);

+/*
+ * Flush all dirty data to disk. Must not be called while holding an XFS_ILOCK
+ * or a page lock.
+ *
+ * We have to hold the s_umount lock here, but because this call can nest
+ * inside i_mutex (the parent directory in the create case, held by the VFS),
+ * we have to use down_read_trylock() to avoid potential deadlocks. In
+ * practice, this trylock will succeed on almost every attempt as
+ * unmount/remount type operations are exceedingly rare.
+ */
+static inline void
+xfs_flush_inodes(struct xfs_mount *mp)
+{
+	struct super_block *sb = mp->m_super;
+
+	if (down_read_trylock(&sb->s_umount)) {
+		sync_inodes_sb(sb);
+		up_read(&sb->s_umount);
+	}
+}
+


Was this suppose to be in xfs_inode.h? Otherwise....

Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@xxxxxxx>

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