Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs

* 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs:
  xfs: unpin stale inodes directly in IOP_COMMITTED

fs/xfs/xfs_inode_item.c

@@ -681,15 +681,15 @@ xfs_inode_item_unlock(
  * where the cluster buffer may be unpinned before the inode is inserted into
  * the AIL during transaction committed processing. If the buffer is unpinned
  * before the inode item has been committed and inserted, then it is possible
- * for the buffer to be written and IO completions before the inode is inserted
+ * for the buffer to be written and IO completes before the inode is inserted
  * into the AIL. In that case, we'd be inserting a clean, stale inode into the
  * AIL which will never get removed. It will, however, get reclaimed which
  * triggers an assert in xfs_inode_free() complaining about freein an inode
  * still in the AIL.
  *
- * To avoid this, return a lower LSN than the one passed in so that the
+ * To avoid this, just unpin the inode directly and return a LSN of -1 so the
- * transaction committed code will not move the inode forward in the AIL but
+ * transaction committed code knows that it does not need to do any further
- * will still unpin it properly.
+ * processing on the item.
  */
 STATIC xfs_lsn_t
 xfs_inode_item_committed(
@@ -699,8 +699,10 @@ xfs_inode_item_committed(
 	struct xfs_inode_log_item *iip = INODE_ITEM(lip);
 	struct xfs_inode	*ip = iip->ili_inode;
 
-	if (xfs_iflags_test(ip, XFS_ISTALE))
+	if (xfs_iflags_test(ip, XFS_ISTALE)) {
-		return lsn - 1;
+		xfs_inode_item_unpin(lip, 0);
+		return -1;
+	}
 	return lsn;
 }
 

fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c

@@ -1361,7 +1361,7 @@ xfs_trans_item_committed(
 		lip->li_flags |= XFS_LI_ABORTED;
 	item_lsn = IOP_COMMITTED(lip, commit_lsn);
 
-	/* If the committed routine returns -1, item has been freed. */
+	/* item_lsn of -1 means the item needs no further processing */
 	if (XFS_LSN_CMP(item_lsn, (xfs_lsn_t)-1) == 0)
 		return;
 
@@ -1474,7 +1474,7 @@ xfs_trans_committed_bulk(
 			lip->li_flags |= XFS_LI_ABORTED;
 		item_lsn = IOP_COMMITTED(lip, commit_lsn);
 
-		/* item_lsn of -1 means the item was freed */
+		/* item_lsn of -1 means the item needs no further processing */
 		if (XFS_LSN_CMP(item_lsn, (xfs_lsn_t)-1) == 0)
 			continue;