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Date:	Tue, 29 Jun 2010 16:26:50 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Larry Woodman <lwoodman@...hat.com>
Cc:	hch@...radead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, riel@...hat.com
Subject: Re: Race in wb_do_writeback() ???

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 04:28:16PM -0400, Larry Woodman wrote:
> Can you have one unconditional call to wb_clear_pending() after the
> calling wb_writeback()???

In fact we should only have a conditional call after wb_writeback.
I've done that already and it's in Jens' tree for 2.6.36:

	http://git.kernel.dk/?p=linux-2.6-block.git;a=commitdiff;h=79338d2a78ab78efdc1698f1309766a039addf9d

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