linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 02/11] writeback: switch to per-bdi threads for flushing data

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Date:	Wed, 20 May 2009 14:49:20 +0200
From:	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	chris.mason@...cle.com, david@...morbit.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, jack@...e.cz,
	yanmin_zhang@...ux.intel.com, aia21@...tab.net,
	linux-ntfs-dev@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/11] writeback: switch to per-bdi threads for
	flushing data

On Wed, May 20 2009, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Can you run the hunk below past Anton and get it upstream separately?
> The code does indeed looks extremly fishy, but I'd rather not see it
> go in a large unrelated patch..

Yes, it really should go out of this patchset and into a prep patch.
Anton, care to comment?

> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 02:19:43PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > diff --git a/fs/ntfs/super.c b/fs/ntfs/super.c
> > index f76951d..c4cb157 100644
> > --- a/fs/ntfs/super.c
> > +++ b/fs/ntfs/super.c
> > @@ -2373,39 +2373,13 @@ static void ntfs_put_super(struct super_block *sb)
> >  		vol->mftmirr_ino = NULL;
> >  	}
> >  	/*
> > -	 * If any dirty inodes are left, throw away all mft data page cache
> > -	 * pages to allow a clean umount.  This should never happen any more
> > -	 * due to mft.c::ntfs_mft_writepage() cleaning all the dirty pages as
> > -	 * the underlying mft records are written out and cleaned.  If it does,
> > +	 * We should have no dirty inodes left, due to
> > +	 * mft.c::ntfs_mft_writepage() cleaning all the dirty pages as
> > +	 * the underlying mft records are written out and cleaned.
> >  	 * happen anyway, we want to know...
> >  	 */
> >  	ntfs_commit_inode(vol->mft_ino);
> >  	write_inode_now(vol->mft_ino, 1);
> > -	if (sb_has_dirty_inodes(sb)) {
> > -		const char *s1, *s2;
> > -
> > -		mutex_lock(&vol->mft_ino->i_mutex);
> > -		truncate_inode_pages(vol->mft_ino->i_mapping, 0);
> > -		mutex_unlock(&vol->mft_ino->i_mutex);
> > -		write_inode_now(vol->mft_ino, 1);
> > -		if (sb_has_dirty_inodes(sb)) {
> > -			static const char *_s1 = "inodes";
> > -			static const char *_s2 = "";
> > -			s1 = _s1;
> > -			s2 = _s2;
> > -		} else {
> > -			static const char *_s1 = "mft pages";
> > -			static const char *_s2 = "They have been thrown "
> > -					"away.  ";
> > -			s1 = _s1;
> > -			s2 = _s2;
> > -		}
> > -		ntfs_error(sb, "Dirty %s found at umount time.  %sYou should "
> > -				"run chkdsk.  Please email "
> > -				"linux-ntfs-dev@...ts.sourceforge.net and say "
> > -				"that you saw this message.  Thank you.", s1,
> > -				s2);
> > -	}
> >  #endif /* NTFS_RW */
> >  
> >  	iput(vol->mft_ino);
> 

-- 
Jens Axboe

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