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Message-ID: <20071109143554.4b3b8961@think.oraclecorp.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 14:35:54 -0500
From: Chris Mason <chris.mason@...cle.com>
To: Zach Brown <zach.brown@...cle.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
linux-aio@...ck.org
Subject: Re: dio_get_page() lockdep complaints
On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 11:16:53 -0800
Zach Brown <zach.brown@...cle.com> wrote:
> > Ugh, I thought the preallocation was getting freed elsewhere, but it
> > looks like I was wrong. We can't just skip the i_mutex after all,
> > sorry.
>
> Ah, so none of those tests at the top will stop tail packing if
> there's been pre-allocation?
>
> Like, uh, the inode reference count test?
>
It always drops prealloc, regardless of i_count. One fix is to change
the prealloc routines to take/drop a reference on the inode.
preallocation is already dropped when the transaction ends, so things
would continue working.
-chris
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