linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: fix ext4_evict_inode() racing against workqueue processing code

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Message-ID: <20130320135142.GE12865@thunk.org>
Date:	Wed, 20 Mar 2013 09:51:42 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:	Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: fix ext4_evict_inode() racing against workqueue
 processing code

On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 02:42:26PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
>   Yeah, we can possibly rename the function or maybe even just inline it in
> ext4_evict_inode?

Good idea, I'll rename it to ext4_ioend_shutdown().  Given that the
rest of the logic is in page_io.c, it seemed better to leave that
function there than to inline it in ext4_evict_inode().

					- Ted
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