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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-05-28 09:54:45 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-05-28 09:54:45 -0700
commit90324cc1b11a211e37eabd8cb863e1a1561d6b1d (patch)
treec8b79c6850420a114ca6660c1b44fc486b1ba86d /Documentation/filesystems
parentfb8b00675eb6462aacab56bca31ed6107bda5314 (diff)
parent169ebd90131b2ffca74bb2dbe7eeacd39fb83714 (diff)
Merge tag 'writeback' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux
Pull writeback tree from Wu Fengguang: "Mainly from Jan Kara to avoid iput() in the flusher threads." * tag 'writeback' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux: writeback: Avoid iput() from flusher thread vfs: Rename end_writeback() to clear_inode() vfs: Move waiting for inode writeback from end_writeback() to evict_inode() writeback: Refactor writeback_single_inode() writeback: Remove wb->list_lock from writeback_single_inode() writeback: Separate inode requeueing after writeback writeback: Move I_DIRTY_PAGES handling writeback: Move requeueing when I_SYNC set to writeback_sb_inodes() writeback: Move clearing of I_SYNC into inode_sync_complete() writeback: initialize global_dirty_limit fs: remove 8 bytes of padding from struct writeback_control on 64 bit builds mm: page-writeback.c: local functions should not be exposed globally
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
index 74acd961881..8c91d1057d9 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
@@ -297,7 +297,8 @@ in the beginning of ->setattr unconditionally.
be used instead. It gets called whenever the inode is evicted, whether it has
remaining links or not. Caller does *not* evict the pagecache or inode-associated
metadata buffers; getting rid of those is responsibility of method, as it had
-been for ->delete_inode().
+been for ->delete_inode(). Caller makes sure async writeback cannot be running
+for the inode while (or after) ->evict_inode() is called.
->drop_inode() returns int now; it's called on final iput() with
inode->i_lock held and it returns true if filesystems wants the inode to be
@@ -306,14 +307,11 @@ updated appropriately. generic_delete_inode() is also alive and it consists
simply of return 1. Note that all actual eviction work is done by caller after
->drop_inode() returns.
- clear_inode() is gone; use end_writeback() instead. As before, it must
-be called exactly once on each call of ->evict_inode() (as it used to be for
-each call of ->delete_inode()). Unlike before, if you are using inode-associated
-metadata buffers (i.e. mark_buffer_dirty_inode()), it's your responsibility to
-call invalidate_inode_buffers() before end_writeback().
- No async writeback (and thus no calls of ->write_inode()) will happen
-after end_writeback() returns, so actions that should not overlap with ->write_inode()
-(e.g. freeing on-disk inode if i_nlink is 0) ought to be done after that call.
+ As before, clear_inode() must be called exactly once on each call of
+->evict_inode() (as it used to be for each call of ->delete_inode()). Unlike
+before, if you are using inode-associated metadata buffers (i.e.
+mark_buffer_dirty_inode()), it's your responsibility to call
+invalidate_inode_buffers() before clear_inode().
NOTE: checking i_nlink in the beginning of ->write_inode() and bailing out
if it's zero is not *and* *never* *had* *been* enough. Final unlink() and iput()