Re: generic_osync_inode() broken?

From: Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Date: Thu Apr 12 2001 - 14:30:13 EST


On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>
> Comments?
>
> --- fs/inode.c~ Thu Mar 22 16:04:13 2001
> +++ fs/inode.c Thu Apr 12 15:18:22 2001
> @@ -347,6 +347,11 @@
> #endif
>
> spin_lock(&inode_lock);
> + while (inode->i_state & I_LOCK) {
> + spin_unlock(&inode_lock);
> + __wait_on_inode(inode);
> + spin_lock(&inode_lock);
> + }
> if (!(inode->i_state & I_DIRTY))
> goto out;
> if (datasync && !(inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_DATASYNC))

Ehh.

Why not just lock the inode around the thing?

The above looks rather ugly.

                Linus

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