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SubjectRe: Possible fix for lockup in drop_caches
On Dec 22, 2007 2:06 AM, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> Oh boy. Do we really want to add all this stuff to JBD just for
> drop_caches which is a silly root-only broken-in-22-other-ways thing?
>
> Michael, might your convert-inode-lists-to-tree patches eliminate the need
> for taking inode_lock in drop_pagecache_sb()? Probably not, as it uses an
> rbtree. It would have been possible if it was using a radix-tree, I
> suspect..

You are correct. The rbtree will still req
>
> > -void __journal_unfile_buffer(struct journal_head *jh)
> > +void __journal_unfile_buffer(struct journal_head *jh,
> > + struct buffer_head **dirty_bh)
> > {
> > - __journal_temp_unlink_buffer(jh);
> > + __journal_temp_unlink_buffer(jh, dirty_bh);
> > jh->b_transaction = NULL;
> > }
>
> I suspect the code would end up simpler if __journal_unfile_buffer() were
> to take an additional ref on the bh which it placed at *dirty_bh.
>
> Callers of __journal_unfile_buffer() could then call
>
> void handle_dirty_bh(struct buffer_head *bh)
> {
> if (bh) {
> jbd_mark_buffer_dirty(bh);
> put_bh(bh);
> }
> }
>
> ?
>


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