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Message-Id: <1284144691-15576-2-git-send-email-lczerner@redhat.com>
Date:	Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:51:31 +0200
From:	Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>
To:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	sandeen@...hat.com, tytso@....edu, adilger@...ger.ca,
	lczerner@...hat.com
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Don't hold spinlock while calling ext4_issue_discard()

We can't hold spinlock because we can get rescheduled.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>
---
 fs/ext4/mballoc.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
index ec2793a..c214cfc 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
@@ -4640,12 +4640,12 @@ do_more:
 		 * with group lock held. generate_buddy look at
 		 * them with group lock_held
 		 */
+		if (test_opt(sb, DISCARD))
+			ext4_issue_discard(sb, block_group, bit, count);
 		ext4_lock_group(sb, block_group);
 		mb_clear_bits(bitmap_bh->b_data, bit, count);
 		mb_free_blocks(inode, &e4b, bit, count);
 		ext4_mb_return_to_preallocation(inode, &e4b, block, count);
-		if (test_opt(sb, DISCARD))
-			ext4_issue_discard(sb, block_group, bit, count);
 	}
 
 	ret = ext4_free_blks_count(sb, gdp) + count;
-- 
1.7.2.2

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