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authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2010-03-22 19:56:42 -0400
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2010-05-21 18:31:15 -0400
commit8edd64bd6089e21f47dcdebb14b598b713213ddc (patch)
treec356a358c7b823433728869ff430ad205c4b8a5d /fs/sync.c
parent551de6f34dfeefbeeadb32909c387d393114ecc8 (diff)
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get rid of restarts in sync_filesystems()
At the same time we can kill s_need_restart and local mutex in there. __put_super() made public for a while; will be gone later. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/sync.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/sync.c28
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 25 deletions
diff --git a/fs/sync.c b/fs/sync.c
index ad6691bae370..f3f0a0e1948f 100644
--- a/fs/sync.c
+++ b/fs/sync.c
@@ -80,35 +80,15 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sync_filesystem);
/*
* Sync all the data for all the filesystems (called by sys_sync() and
* emergency sync)
- *
- * This operation is careful to avoid the livelock which could easily happen
- * if two or more filesystems are being continuously dirtied. s_need_sync
- * is used only here. We set it against all filesystems and then clear it as
- * we sync them. So redirtied filesystems are skipped.
- *
- * But if process A is currently running sync_filesystems and then process B
- * calls sync_filesystems as well, process B will set all the s_need_sync
- * flags again, which will cause process A to resync everything. Fix that with
- * a local mutex.
*/
static void sync_filesystems(int wait)
{
- struct super_block *sb;
- static DEFINE_MUTEX(mutex);
+ struct super_block *sb, *n;
- mutex_lock(&mutex); /* Could be down_interruptible */
spin_lock(&sb_lock);
- list_for_each_entry(sb, &super_blocks, s_list)
- if (!list_empty(&sb->s_instances))
- sb->s_need_sync = 1;
-
-restart:
- list_for_each_entry(sb, &super_blocks, s_list) {
+ list_for_each_entry_safe(sb, n, &super_blocks, s_list) {
if (list_empty(&sb->s_instances))
continue;
- if (!sb->s_need_sync)
- continue;
- sb->s_need_sync = 0;
sb->s_count++;
spin_unlock(&sb_lock);
@@ -119,11 +99,9 @@ restart:
/* restart only when sb is no longer on the list */
spin_lock(&sb_lock);
- if (__put_super_and_need_restart(sb))
- goto restart;
+ __put_super(sb);
}
spin_unlock(&sb_lock);
- mutex_unlock(&mutex);
}
/*