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Commit 7994e6f7 authored by Jan Kara's avatar Jan Kara Committed by Fengguang Wu
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vfs: Move waiting for inode writeback from end_writeback() to evict_inode()



Currently, I_SYNC can never be set when evict_inode() (and thus
end_writeback()) is called because flusher thread holds inode reference while
inode is under writeback. As a result inode_sync_wait() in those places
currently does nothing. However that is going to change and unveils problems
with calling inode_sync_wait() from end_writeback(). Several filesystems call
end_writeback() after they have deleted the inode (btrfs, gfs2, ...) and other
filesystems (ext3, ext4, reiserfs, ...) can deadlock when waiting for I_SYNC
because they call end_writeback() from within a transaction.

To avoid these issues, we move inode_sync_wait() into evict_inode() before
calling ->evict_inode(). That way we preserve the current property that
->evict_inode() and writeback never run in parallel and all filesystems are
safe.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarFengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
parent 4f8ad655
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