Re: [PATCH 02/11] writeback: switch to per-bdi threads forflushing data

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Wed May 20 2009 - 08:49:34 EST


On Wed, May 20 2009, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Can you run the hunk below past Anton and get it upstream separately?
> The code does indeed looks extremly fishy, but I'd rather not see it
> go in a large unrelated patch..

Yes, it really should go out of this patchset and into a prep patch.
Anton, care to comment?

> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 02:19:43PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > diff --git a/fs/ntfs/super.c b/fs/ntfs/super.c
> > index f76951d..c4cb157 100644
> > --- a/fs/ntfs/super.c
> > +++ b/fs/ntfs/super.c
> > @@ -2373,39 +2373,13 @@ static void ntfs_put_super(struct super_block *sb)
> > vol->mftmirr_ino = NULL;
> > }
> > /*
> > - * If any dirty inodes are left, throw away all mft data page cache
> > - * pages to allow a clean umount. This should never happen any more
> > - * due to mft.c::ntfs_mft_writepage() cleaning all the dirty pages as
> > - * the underlying mft records are written out and cleaned. If it does,
> > + * We should have no dirty inodes left, due to
> > + * mft.c::ntfs_mft_writepage() cleaning all the dirty pages as
> > + * the underlying mft records are written out and cleaned.
> > * happen anyway, we want to know...
> > */
> > ntfs_commit_inode(vol->mft_ino);
> > write_inode_now(vol->mft_ino, 1);
> > - if (sb_has_dirty_inodes(sb)) {
> > - const char *s1, *s2;
> > -
> > - mutex_lock(&vol->mft_ino->i_mutex);
> > - truncate_inode_pages(vol->mft_ino->i_mapping, 0);
> > - mutex_unlock(&vol->mft_ino->i_mutex);
> > - write_inode_now(vol->mft_ino, 1);
> > - if (sb_has_dirty_inodes(sb)) {
> > - static const char *_s1 = "inodes";
> > - static const char *_s2 = "";
> > - s1 = _s1;
> > - s2 = _s2;
> > - } else {
> > - static const char *_s1 = "mft pages";
> > - static const char *_s2 = "They have been thrown "
> > - "away. ";
> > - s1 = _s1;
> > - s2 = _s2;
> > - }
> > - ntfs_error(sb, "Dirty %s found at umount time. %sYou should "
> > - "run chkdsk. Please email "
> > - "linux-ntfs-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and say "
> > - "that you saw this message. Thank you.", s1,
> > - s2);
> > - }
> > #endif /* NTFS_RW */
> >
> > iput(vol->mft_ino);
>

--
Jens Axboe

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