linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] f2fs: remove dirty inode pages in error path

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Date:   Mon, 26 Sep 2016 09:04:22 +0800
From:   Chao Yu <yuchao0@...wei.com>
To:     Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>
CC:     <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] f2fs: remove dirty inode pages in error path

On 2016/9/25 1:47, Jaegeuk Kim wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 09:02:02AM +0800, Chao Yu wrote:
>> On 2016/9/24 5:11, Jaegeuk Kim wrote:
>>> When getting EIO while handling orphan inodes, we can get some dirty node
>>> pages. Then, f2fs_write_node_pages() called by iput(node_inode) will try
>>> to flush node pages. But in this case, we should prevent to do that, since
>>> we will try again from the start.
>>
>> We are protected since we set SBI_POR_DOING flag in sb, so we are safe now?
> 
> Safe, but we get an infinite loop to flush node pages.

Got it.

Thanks,

> 
>>
>> Thanks,
> 
> .
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