Re: Race in wb_do_writeback() ???

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue Jun 29 2010 - 16:26:58 EST


On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 04:28:16PM -0400, Larry Woodman wrote:
> Can you have one unconditional call to wb_clear_pending() after the
> calling wb_writeback()???

In fact we should only have a conditional call after wb_writeback.
I've done that already and it's in Jens' tree for 2.6.36:

http://git.kernel.dk/?p=linux-2.6-block.git;a=commitdiff;h=79338d2a78ab78efdc1698f1309766a039addf9d

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