From: Miklos Szeredi This patch fixes queer behavior in __wait_on_freeing_inode(). If I_LOCK was not set it called yield(), effectively busy waiting for the removal of the inode from the hash. This change was introduced within "[PATCH] eliminate inode waitqueue hashtable" Changeset 1.1938.166.16 last october by wli. The solution is to restore the old behavior, of unconditionally waiting on the waitqueue. It doesn't matter if I_LOCK is not set initally, the task will go to sleep, and wake up when wake_up_inode() is called from generic_delete_inode() after removing the inode from the hash chain. Comment is also updated to better reflect current behavior. Compile tested only. This condition is very hard to trigger normally (simultaneous clear_inode() with iget()) so probably only heavy stress testing can reveal any change of behavior. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- fs/inode.c | 26 +++++++++----------------- 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/inode.c~__wait_on_freeing_inode-fix fs/inode.c --- devel/fs/inode.c~__wait_on_freeing_inode-fix 2005-07-08 23:11:34.000000000 -0700 +++ devel-akpm/fs/inode.c 2005-07-08 23:11:34.000000000 -0700 @@ -1282,29 +1282,21 @@ int inode_wait(void *word) } /* - * If we try to find an inode in the inode hash while it is being deleted, we - * have to wait until the filesystem completes its deletion before reporting - * that it isn't found. This is because iget will immediately call - * ->read_inode, and we want to be sure that evidence of the deletion is found - * by ->read_inode. + * If we try to find an inode in the inode hash while it is being + * deleted, we have to wait until the filesystem completes its + * deletion before reporting that it isn't found. This function waits + * until the deletion _might_ have completed. Callers are responsible + * to recheck inode state. + * + * It doesn't matter if I_LOCK is not set initially, a call to + * wake_up_inode() after removing from the hash list will DTRT. + * * This is called with inode_lock held. */ static void __wait_on_freeing_inode(struct inode *inode) { wait_queue_head_t *wq; DEFINE_WAIT_BIT(wait, &inode->i_state, __I_LOCK); - - /* - * I_FREEING and I_CLEAR are cleared in process context under - * inode_lock, so we have to give the tasks who would clear them - * a chance to run and acquire inode_lock. - */ - if (!(inode->i_state & I_LOCK)) { - spin_unlock(&inode_lock); - yield(); - spin_lock(&inode_lock); - return; - } wq = bit_waitqueue(&inode->i_state, __I_LOCK); prepare_to_wait(wq, &wait.wait, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE); spin_unlock(&inode_lock); _