tree b93db15bf5e4cd890670db0fd36575b5efce2366
parent 4f8ad655dbc82cf05d2edc11e66b78a42d38bf93
author Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> 1336049281 +0200
committer Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> 1336283020 +0800

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: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>