NFS: Fix a hang in the writeback path
Now that the inode scalability patches have been merged, it is no longer
safe to call igrab() under the inode->i_lock.
Now that we no longer call nfs_clear_request() until the nfs_page is
being freed, we know that we are always holding a reference to the
nfs_open_context, which again holds a reference to the path, and so
the inode cannot be freed until the last nfs_page has been removed
from the radix tree and freed.
We can therefore skip the igrab()/iput() altogether.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
diff --git a/fs/nfs/pagelist.c b/fs/nfs/pagelist.c
index 87a593c..c80add6 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/pagelist.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/pagelist.c
@@ -135,14 +135,14 @@
nfs_unlock_request(req);
}
-/**
+/*
* nfs_clear_request - Free up all resources allocated to the request
* @req:
*
* Release page and open context resources associated with a read/write
* request after it has completed.
*/
-void nfs_clear_request(struct nfs_page *req)
+static void nfs_clear_request(struct nfs_page *req)
{
struct page *page = req->wb_page;
struct nfs_open_context *ctx = req->wb_context;
