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From: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
To: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>,
	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>, Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Surbhi Palande <csurbhi@gmail.com>,
	Valerie Aurora <val@vaaconsulting.com>,
	Christopher Chaltain <christopher.chaltain@canonical.com>,
	"Peter M. Petrakis" <peter.petrakis@canonical.com>,
	Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/7] VFS: Rename and refactor writeback_inodes_sb_if_idle
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:10:29 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EE99D65.3060302@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EE6C7AD.3020907@cn.fujitsu.com>

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On tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:34:05 +0800, Miao Xie wrote:
> On thu, 8 Dec 2011 10:04:34 -0800, Kamal Mostafa wrote:
>>  /**
>> - * writeback_inodes_sb_if_idle	-	start writeback if none underway
>> + * try_to_writeback_inodes_sb_nr	-	start writeback if none underway
>>   * @sb: the superblock
>>   * @nr: the number of pages to write
>>   *
>>   * Invoke writeback_inodes_sb if no writeback is currently underway.
>>   * Returns 1 if writeback was started, 0 if not.
>>   */
>> -int writeback_inodes_sb_nr_if_idle(struct super_block *sb,
>> +int try_to_writeback_inodes_sb_nr(struct super_block *sb,
>>  				   unsigned long nr,
>>  				   enum wb_reason reason)
>>  {
>>  	if (!writeback_in_progress(sb->s_bdi)) {
>>  		down_read(&sb->s_umount);
>> -		writeback_inodes_sb_nr(sb, nr, reason);
>> +		if (nr == 0)
>> +			writeback_inodes_sb(sb, reason);
>> +		else
>> +			writeback_inodes_sb_nr(sb, nr, reason);
>>  		up_read(&sb->s_umount);
>>  		return 1;
>>  	} else
>>  		return 0;
> 
> The comment said "Returns 1 if writeback was started", so if writeback_in_progress()
> return true, I think this function also should return 1.
> 
> BTW: Does anyone know when this patchset will be merged into the main tree?
> 
> Thanks
> Miao
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-15  7:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-08 18:04 [PATCH v2 0/7] fix s_umount thaw/write and journal deadlock Kamal Mostafa
2011-12-08 18:04 ` [PATCH v2 1/7] Adding support to freeze and unfreeze a journal Kamal Mostafa
2012-01-10 20:20   ` Eric Sandeen
2012-01-10 21:31     ` Jan Kara
2012-01-10 21:55       ` Surbhi Palande
     [not found]       ` <CAMBkX3eVeKSmEzmYTe6Oe_D6kAMQTL5LYoi1-Axj7CcrM85Pow@mail.gmail.com>
2012-01-11  0:04         ` Jan Kara
2012-01-11  0:13           ` Surbhi Palande
2012-01-11  0:51             ` Jan Kara
2012-01-11  3:08       ` Eric Sandeen
2012-01-10 22:00     ` Surbhi Palande
2011-12-08 18:04 ` [PATCH v2 2/7] Freeze and thaw the journal on ext4 freeze Kamal Mostafa
2012-01-06  0:32   ` Jan Kara
2011-12-08 18:04 ` [PATCH v2 3/7] VFS: Fix s_umount thaw/write deadlock Kamal Mostafa
2012-01-06  1:50   ` Jan Kara
2011-12-08 18:04 ` [PATCH v2 4/7] VFS: Rename and refactor writeback_inodes_sb_if_idle Kamal Mostafa
2011-12-13  3:34   ` Miao Xie
2011-12-15  7:10     ` Miao Xie [this message]
2011-12-16 20:48     ` Kamal Mostafa
2012-01-06  0:33   ` Jan Kara
2011-12-08 18:04 ` [PATCH v2 5/7] VFS: Avoid read-write deadlock in try_to_writeback_inodes_sb Kamal Mostafa
2012-01-06  0:35   ` Jan Kara
2012-01-11 20:29     ` Kamal Mostafa
2012-01-12 15:53       ` Mikulas Patocka
2011-12-08 18:04 ` [PATCH v2 6/7] VFS: Document s_frozen state through freeze_super Kamal Mostafa
2012-01-06  0:36   ` Jan Kara
2011-12-08 18:04 ` [PATCH v2 7/7] Documentation: Correct s_umount state for freeze_fs/unfreeze_fs Kamal Mostafa
2012-01-06  0:36   ` Jan Kara

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