linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] async: Don't call async_synchronize_full_special() while holding sb

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Message-ID: <20090108225050.GL9448@disturbed>
Date:	Fri, 9 Jan 2009 09:50:50 +1100
From:	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
To:	Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Grissiom <chaos.proton@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] async: Don't call async_synchronize_full_special()
	while holding sb_lock

On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 09:46:31AM -0600, Dave Kleikamp wrote:
> sync_filesystems() shouldn't be calling async_synchronize_full_special
> while holding a spinlock.  The second while loop in that function is the
> right place for this anyway.

Out of curiousity, what on earth does
async_synchronize_full_special() do and why does it need to be in
sync_filesystems()?

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@...morbit.com
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