Question about nfs_page_async_flush assertion

From: Peng Tao
Date: Thu Nov 18 2010 - 05:54:20 EST


Hi, all,

nfs_writepages calls into
write_cache_pages()->nfs_writepages_callback()->nfs_do_writepage()->nfs_page_async_flush(),
where it asserts BUG_ON(test_bit(PG_CLEAN, &req->wb_flags)).
My question is: how do we guarantee the request has PG_CLEAN flag set?

nfs_writepages calls:
356 nfs_pageio_init_write(&pgio, inode, wb_priority(wbc));
357 err = write_cache_pages(mapping, wbc,
nfs_writepages_callback, &pgio);
358 nfs_pageio_complete(&pgio);

IIUC, the request will only be issued in nfs_pageio_complete() and
there nfs_write_rpcsetup() will call
nfs_writeback_release_full()->nfs_mark_request_commit() to set the
PG_CLEAN flag. If the request has not ever been issued before entering
nfs_writepages, the PG_CLEAN flag will not be set and the BUG_ON will
be triggered. Am I missing something?

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Thanks,
-Bergwolf
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