[PATCH 7/8] xfs: handle CIl transaction commit failures correctly

Alex Elder aelder at sgi.com
Wed Jan 26 15:23:09 CST 2011


On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 19:50 +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner at redhat.com>
> 
> Failure to commit a transaction into the CIL is not handled
> correctly. This currently can only happen when racing with a
> shutdown and requires an explicit shutdown check, so it rare and can
> be avoided. Remove the shutdown check and make the CIL commit a void
> function to indicate it will always succeed, thereby removing the
> incorrectly handled failure case.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner at redhat.com>

Looks good.

Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder at sgi.com>





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