Re: [PATCH block/for-4.5-fixes] writeback: keep superblock pinned during cgroup writeback association switches

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Wed Feb 17 2016 - 18:02:42 EST


On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 02:41:25PM -0800, Tahsin Erdogan wrote:
> With this patch, I am starting to have issues running fsck immediately
> after umount.
>
> *** fsck.ext4 output ***
> fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2
> e2fsck 1.42.12-gg3 (9-Sep-2014)
> Warning! /dev/sdb3 is in use.
> Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
> Deleted inode 62346243 has zero dtime. Fix? no

Yeah, that'd be one of the side effects. Will think more about it.
Jan, do you know why we have both s_active and the rwsem at this
point? I can't tell why both are needed.

Thanks.

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tejun