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SubjectRe: Linux 2.4.25-pre5
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On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 00:45 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Really, the init_waitqueue_head() should be done prior to putting the inode
> back into slab.

I had that version first but preferred doing it with all the other inode
initialisation in alloc_inode() rather than in destroy_inode(). If you
do it this way, you reinit even when you're about to discard the slab
pages. I don't care much though.

===== inode.c 1.48 vs edited =====
--- 1.48/fs/inode.c Wed Jan 14 20:51:18 2004
+++ edited/inode.c Fri Jan 16 08:56:14 2004
@@ -127,6 +127,10 @@
{
if (inode_has_buffers(inode))
BUG();
+ /* Reinitialise the waitqueue head because __wait_on_freeing_inode()
+ may have left stale entries on it which it can't remove (since
+ it knows we're freeing the inode right now */
+ init_waitqueue_head(&inode->i_wait);
if (inode->i_sb->s_op->destroy_inode)
inode->i_sb->s_op->destroy_inode(inode);
else
--
dwmw2


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