On 12/15/19 8:11 PM, Dave Chinner wrote:
>>> diff --git a/fs/super.c b/fs/super.c
>>> index cfadab2cbf35..adc18652302b 100644
>>> --- a/fs/super.c
>>> +++ b/fs/super.c
>>> @@ -80,6 +80,11 @@ static unsigned long super_cache_scan(struct shrinker *shrink,
>>>   	if (!trylock_super(sb))
>>>   		return SHRINK_STOP;
>>>   
>>> +	if (sb->s_writers.frozen != SB_UNFROZEN) {
>>> +		up_read(&sb->s_umount);
>>> +		return SHRINK_STOP;
>>> +	}
>> Whatever happened to "let's just fsfreeze the filesystems shortly before
>> freezing the system?  Did someone find a reason why that wouldn't work?
>>
>> Also, uh, doesn't this disable memory reclaim for frozen filesystems?
>>
>> Maybe we all need to go review the xfs io-less inode reclaim series so
>> we can stop running transactions in reclaim... I can't merge any of it
>> until the mm changes go upstream.
> IO-less reclaim doesn't prevent ->destroy_inode from having to run
> transactions. e.g. this is the path through which unlink does inode
> freeing. Background inode inactivation is the patchset that
> addresses this problem...:)

Sound backgroup inode inactivation is only for xfs? I suppose this is a 
generic issue, other fs will also suffer this?

Thanks,

Junxiao.

>
> Cheers,
>
> Dave.