[PATCH] async: Don't call async_synchronize_full_special() whileholding sb_lock

From: Dave Kleikamp
Date: Thu Jan 08 2009 - 10:46:49 EST


sync_filesystems() shouldn't be calling async_synchronize_full_special
while holding a spinlock. The second while loop in that function is the
right place for this anyway.

Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Grissiom <chaos.proton@xxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/fs/super.c b/fs/super.c
index cb20744..7d67387 100644
--- a/fs/super.c
+++ b/fs/super.c
@@ -458,7 +458,6 @@ void sync_filesystems(int wait)
if (sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY)
continue;
sb->s_need_sync_fs = 1;
- async_synchronize_full_special(&sb->s_async_list);
}

restart:
@@ -471,6 +470,7 @@ restart:
sb->s_count++;
spin_unlock(&sb_lock);
down_read(&sb->s_umount);
+ async_synchronize_full_special(&sb->s_async_list);
if (sb->s_root && (wait || sb->s_dirt))
sb->s_op->sync_fs(sb, wait);
up_read(&sb->s_umount);

--
David Kleikamp
IBM Linux Technology Center

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