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

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Message-ID: <20090109003239.06f73bd1@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date:	Fri, 9 Jan 2009 00:32:39 +0000
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	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, 08 Jan 2009 14:51:52 -0800
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com> wrote:

> Dave Chinner wrote:
> > 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()?
> > 
> now that we have asynchronous operations, this function makes sure that all the functions
> that we started async before this point complete, so that what when you sync, you sync all in progress work.

So why is it special - wouldn't async_synchronize_all() be a bit (or
complete_all) be a bit more clear ?

Alan
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