Merge tag 'for_linus-20110831' of git://github.com/tytso/ext4
* tag 'for_linus-20110831' of git://github.com/tytso/ext4:
ext4: remove i_mutex lock in ext4_evict_inode to fix lockdep complaining
diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
index e717dfd..b7d7bd0 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h
+++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
@@ -175,6 +175,7 @@
*/
#define EXT4_IO_END_UNWRITTEN 0x0001
#define EXT4_IO_END_ERROR 0x0002
+#define EXT4_IO_END_QUEUED 0x0004
struct ext4_io_page {
struct page *p_page;
diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index c4da98a..18d2558 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -121,9 +121,6 @@
trace_ext4_evict_inode(inode);
- mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
- ext4_flush_completed_IO(inode);
- mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
ext4_ioend_wait(inode);
if (inode->i_nlink) {
diff --git a/fs/ext4/page-io.c b/fs/ext4/page-io.c
index 78839af..92f38ee 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/page-io.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/page-io.c
@@ -142,7 +142,23 @@
unsigned long flags;
int ret;
- mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
+ if (!mutex_trylock(&inode->i_mutex)) {
+ /*
+ * Requeue the work instead of waiting so that the work
+ * items queued after this can be processed.
+ */
+ queue_work(EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb)->dio_unwritten_wq, &io->work);
+ /*
+ * To prevent the ext4-dio-unwritten thread from keeping
+ * requeueing end_io requests and occupying cpu for too long,
+ * yield the cpu if it sees an end_io request that has already
+ * been requeued.
+ */
+ if (io->flag & EXT4_IO_END_QUEUED)
+ yield();
+ io->flag |= EXT4_IO_END_QUEUED;
+ return;
+ }
ret = ext4_end_io_nolock(io);
if (ret < 0) {
mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);