[PATCH 4/5] xfs: free inodes on log recovery error
Christoph Hellwig
hch at infradead.org
Wed Jul 9 04:02:24 CDT 2014
On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 09:32:10AM -0500, Mark Tinguely wrote:
> Recovery may free inodes that end up on the inode
> reclaim RCU. If recovery fails, we leak these inodes.
> The filesystem should be in forced shutdown at this
> point, so a call to xfs_reclaim_inode is a fast path
> to freeing the inodes and RCU entries.
I haven't really started reviewing the series, but your terminology
here seems wrong. RCU is just a way to synchronize updates - do you
mean inodes are marked as reclaimable in the radix tree?
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