On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>
> On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > >
> > > Comments?
> > >
> > > --- fs/inode.c~ Thu Mar 22 16:04:13 2001
> > > +++ fs/inode.c Thu Apr 12 15:18:22 2001
> > > @@ -347,6 +347,11 @@
> > > #endif
> > >
> > > spin_lock(&inode_lock);
> > > + while (inode->i_state & I_LOCK) {
> > > + spin_unlock(&inode_lock);
> > > + __wait_on_inode(inode);
> > > + spin_lock(&inode_lock);
> > > + }
> > > if (!(inode->i_state & I_DIRTY))
> > > goto out;
> > > if (datasync && !(inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_DATASYNC))
> >
> > Ehh.
> >
> > Why not just lock the inode around the thing?
> >
> > The above looks rather ugly.
>
> You mean writing a function called "lock_inode()" or whatever to basically
> do what I did ?
Oh well, its still bad.
We drop the inode_lock before calling write_inode_now() (which is broken,
too :)), which means someone can set I_LOCK under us.
I'll send you a patch to fix that one (and other callers of
write_inode_now()) later.
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