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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-08-31 15:08:19 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-08-31 15:08:19 -0700
commitb79c4f75e4d3fbfd225660c12f29a7fafcd8e6d9 (patch)
tree225b9ee9ec351224f3e3afa4a18c293f3e03f877
parentfd53f7d8eea9cd43c5fb6d316ea1ed128c9b8e45 (diff)
parent8c0bec2151a47906bf779c6715a10ce04453ab77 (diff)
Merge tag 'for_linus-20110831' of git://github.com/tytso/ext4
* tag 'for_linus-20110831' of git://github.com/tytso/ext4: ext4: remove i_mutex lock in ext4_evict_inode to fix lockdep complaining
-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/ext4.h1
-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/inode.c3
-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/page-io.c18
3 files changed, 18 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
index e717dfd2f2b4..b7d7bd0f066e 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h
+++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
@@ -175,6 +175,7 @@ struct mpage_da_data {
*/
#define EXT4_IO_END_UNWRITTEN 0x0001
#define EXT4_IO_END_ERROR 0x0002
+#define EXT4_IO_END_QUEUED 0x0004
struct ext4_io_page {
struct page *p_page;
diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index c4da98a959ae..18d2558b7624 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -121,9 +121,6 @@ void ext4_evict_inode(struct inode *inode)
trace_ext4_evict_inode(inode);
- mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
- ext4_flush_completed_IO(inode);
- mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
ext4_ioend_wait(inode);
if (inode->i_nlink) {
diff --git a/fs/ext4/page-io.c b/fs/ext4/page-io.c
index 78839af7ce29..92f38ee13f8a 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/page-io.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/page-io.c
@@ -142,7 +142,23 @@ static void ext4_end_io_work(struct work_struct *work)
unsigned long flags;
int ret;
- mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
+ if (!mutex_trylock(&inode->i_mutex)) {
+ /*
+ * Requeue the work instead of waiting so that the work
+ * items queued after this can be processed.
+ */
+ queue_work(EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb)->dio_unwritten_wq, &io->work);
+ /*
+ * To prevent the ext4-dio-unwritten thread from keeping
+ * requeueing end_io requests and occupying cpu for too long,
+ * yield the cpu if it sees an end_io request that has already
+ * been requeued.
+ */
+ if (io->flag & EXT4_IO_END_QUEUED)
+ yield();
+ io->flag |= EXT4_IO_END_QUEUED;
+ return;
+ }
ret = ext4_end_io_nolock(io);
if (ret < 0) {
mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);