[PATCH 6/6] prevent time-ordering warnings

From: Fengguang Wu
Date: Sun Aug 19 2007 - 03:17:07 EST


It's -mm staff.

Just to make the inode list time ordering check logic comfortable.
Otherwise the old behavior is preferred.

Cc: Ken Chen <kenchen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <wfg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/fs-writeback.c | 9 +--------
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 8 deletions(-)

--- linux-2.6.23-rc2-mm2.orig/fs/fs-writeback.c
+++ linux-2.6.23-rc2-mm2/fs/fs-writeback.c
@@ -224,14 +224,7 @@ static void redirty_tail(struct inode *i
struct super_block *sb = inode->i_sb;

check_dirty_inode(inode);
- if (!list_empty(&sb->s_dirty)) {
- struct inode *tail_inode;
-
- tail_inode = list_entry(sb->s_dirty.next, struct inode, i_list);
- if (!time_after_eq(inode->dirtied_when,
- tail_inode->dirtied_when))
- inode->dirtied_when = jiffies;
- }
+ inode->dirtied_when = jiffies;
list_move(&inode->i_list, &sb->s_dirty);
check_dirty_inode(inode);
}

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