[PATCH] [XFS] Warn on transaction in flight on read-only remount

[Felix Blyakher]

[resending after fixing xfs mailing list on oss]

Just wanted to point out to discussion on this topic:

http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2008-12/msg00019.html

I merely took a suggestion from it, and put it in a patch.

Felix

On Jan 21, 2009, at 4:57 PM, Felix Blyakher wrote:

> Till VFS can correctly support read-only remount without racing,
> use WARN_ON instead of BUG_ON on detecting transaction in flight
> after quiescing filesystem.
>
> Signed-off-by: Felix Blyakher <felixb at sgi.com>
> ---
>  fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_sync.c |    5 ++++-
>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_sync.c b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_sync.c
> index 2ed0353..d8373ee 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_sync.c
> +++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_sync.c
> @@ -371,7 +371,10 @@ xfs_quiesce_attr(
>  	/* flush inodes and push all remaining buffers out to disk */
>  	xfs_quiesce_fs(mp);
>
> -	ASSERT_ALWAYS(atomic_read(&mp->m_active_trans) == 0);
> +	/* Just warn here till VFS can correctly support
> +	 * read-only remount without racing.
> +	 */
> +	WARN_ON(atomic_read(&mp->m_active_trans) == 0);
>
>  	/* Push the superblock and write an unmount record */
>  	error = xfs_log_sbcount(mp, 1);
> -- 
> 1.6.1
>