On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 10:57:43AM +0800, Miao Xie wrote:
> writeback_inodes_sb(_nr) grabs s_umount lock when it want to start writeback,
> it may bring us deadlock problem when doing umount. So we introduce new
> functions -- try_to_writeback_inodes_sb(_nr) -- which use down_read_trylock()
> instead of down_read() to avoid that deadlock problem.
> 
> This idea came from Christoph Hellwig.
> Some code is from the patch of Kamal Mostafa.

This just re-implements writeback_inodes_[nr]_sb_if_idle() with a
trylock instead of a blocking lock.

Just replace the blocking lock in writeback_inodes_[nr]_sb_if_idle()
with a trylock and use that.

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
da...@fromorbit.com
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