Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs
* 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs:
xfs: unpin stale inodes directly in IOP_COMMITTED
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode_item.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode_item.c
index 09983a3..b1e88d5 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode_item.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode_item.c
@@ -681,15 +681,15 @@
* where the cluster buffer may be unpinned before the inode is inserted into
* the AIL during transaction committed processing. If the buffer is unpinned
* before the inode item has been committed and inserted, then it is possible
- * for the buffer to be written and IO completions before the inode is inserted
+ * for the buffer to be written and IO completes before the inode is inserted
* into the AIL. In that case, we'd be inserting a clean, stale inode into the
* AIL which will never get removed. It will, however, get reclaimed which
* triggers an assert in xfs_inode_free() complaining about freein an inode
* still in the AIL.
*
- * To avoid this, return a lower LSN than the one passed in so that the
- * transaction committed code will not move the inode forward in the AIL but
- * will still unpin it properly.
+ * To avoid this, just unpin the inode directly and return a LSN of -1 so the
+ * transaction committed code knows that it does not need to do any further
+ * processing on the item.
*/
STATIC xfs_lsn_t
xfs_inode_item_committed(
@@ -699,8 +699,10 @@
struct xfs_inode_log_item *iip = INODE_ITEM(lip);
struct xfs_inode *ip = iip->ili_inode;
- if (xfs_iflags_test(ip, XFS_ISTALE))
- return lsn - 1;
+ if (xfs_iflags_test(ip, XFS_ISTALE)) {
+ xfs_inode_item_unpin(lip, 0);
+ return -1;
+ }
return lsn;
}
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c
index 7c7bc2b..c83f63b 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c
@@ -1361,7 +1361,7 @@
lip->li_flags |= XFS_LI_ABORTED;
item_lsn = IOP_COMMITTED(lip, commit_lsn);
- /* If the committed routine returns -1, item has been freed. */
+ /* item_lsn of -1 means the item needs no further processing */
if (XFS_LSN_CMP(item_lsn, (xfs_lsn_t)-1) == 0)
return;
@@ -1474,7 +1474,7 @@
lip->li_flags |= XFS_LI_ABORTED;
item_lsn = IOP_COMMITTED(lip, commit_lsn);
- /* item_lsn of -1 means the item was freed */
+ /* item_lsn of -1 means the item needs no further processing */
if (XFS_LSN_CMP(item_lsn, (xfs_lsn_t)-1) == 0)
continue;