Re: [PATCH] Check if AIL has been started before stopping it

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 12:27:06PM +1100, Lachlan McIlroy wrote:
> A failure during mount can result in shutting down the AIL when
> it may not have been started up yet.

The right fix is to not call xfsaild_stop in that case.

Something like this should fix your problem:


Index: xfs/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c
===================================================================
--- xfs.orig/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c   2009-02-10 11:10:41.804069754 +0100
+++ xfs/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c        2009-02-10 11:10:58.339943990 +0100
@@ -575,7 +575,7 @@ xfs_log_mount(
        error = xfs_trans_ail_init(mp);
        if (error) {
                cmn_err(CE_WARN, "XFS: AIL initialisation failed: error %d", 
error);
-               goto error;
+               goto out_free_log;
        }
        mp->m_log->l_ailp = mp->m_ail;
 
@@ -595,20 +595,22 @@ xfs_log_mount(
                        mp->m_flags |= XFS_MOUNT_RDONLY;
                if (error) {
                        cmn_err(CE_WARN, "XFS: log mount/recovery failed: error 
%d", error);
-                       goto error;
+                       goto out_destroy_ail;
                }
        }
 
        /* Normal transactions can now occur */
        mp->m_log->l_flags &= ~XLOG_ACTIVE_RECOVERY;
 
-       /* End mounting message in xfs_log_mount_finish */
        return 0;
-error:
-       xfs_log_unmount_dealloc(mp);
+
+out_destroy_ail:
+       xfs_trans_ail_destroy(mp);
+out_free_log:
+       xlog_dealloc_log(mp->m_log);
 out:
        return error;
-}      /* xfs_log_mount */
+}
 
 /*
  * Finish the recovery of the file system.  This is separate from