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From: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] ubifs: Introduce a mount option of force_atime.
Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2015 00:55:13 +0200
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Am 08.06.2015 um 12:07 schrieb Dongsheng Yang:
> -	ubifs_assert(mutex_is_locked(&ui->ui_mutex));
>  	if (!ui->dirty) {
> +		if (!locked) {
> +			/*
> +			 * It's a little tricky here, there is only one
> +			 * possible user of ubifs_dirty_inode did not do
> +			 * a budget for this inode. At the same time, this
> +			 * user is not holding the ui->ui_mutex. Then if
> +			 * we found ui->ui_mutex is not locked, we can say:
> +			 * we need to do a budget in ubifs_dirty_inode here.
> +			 */
> +			struct ubifs_budget_req req = { .dirtied_ino = 1,
> +					.dirtied_ino_d = ALIGN(ui->data_len, 8) };
> +
> +			ret = ubifs_budget_space(c, &req);
> +			if (ret)
> +				goto out;
> +		}

So, this is the new case when ->dirty_inode() is called via generic_update_time()?
Did you research whether you can detect that case also by looking at the flags parameter?
I'd give I_DIRTY_TIME a try. This way you could get at least rid of the mutex_is_locked()
usage.

Thanks,
//richard