1. Andreas Gruenbacher has four patches related to cleaning up the GFS2
inode evict process. This is about half of his patches designed to
fix a long-standing GFS2 hang related to the inode shrinker.
(Shrinker calls gfs2 evict, evict calls DLM, DLM requires memory
and blocks on the shrinker.) These 4 patches have been well tested.
His second set of patches are still being tested, so I plan to hold
them until the next merge window, after we have more weeks of testing.
The first patch eliminates the flush_delayed_work, which can block.
2. Andreas's second patch protects setting of gl_object for rgrps with
a spin_lock to prevent proven races.
3. His third patch introduces a centralized mechanism for queueing glock
work with better reference counting, to prevent more races.
4. His fourth patch retains a reference to inode glocks when an error
occurs while creating an inode. This keeps the subsequent evict from
needing to reacquire the glock, which might call into DLM and block
in low memory conditions.
5. Arvind Yadav has a patch to add const to attribute_group structures.
6. I have a patch to detect directory entry inconsistencies and withdraw
the file system if any are found. Better that than silent corruption.
7. I have a patch to remove a vestigial variable from glock structures,
saving some slab space.
8. I have another patch to remove a vestigial variable from the GFS2
in-core superblock structure.
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Merge tag 'gfs2-4.13.fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gfs2/linux-gfs2
Pull GFS2 updates from Bob Peterson:
"We've got eight GFS2 patches for this merge window:
- Andreas Gruenbacher has four patches related to cleaning up the
GFS2 inode evict process. This is about half of his patches
designed to fix a long-standing GFS2 hang related to the inode
shrinker: Shrinker calls gfs2 evict, evict calls DLM, DLM requires
memory and blocks on the shrinker.
These four patches have been well tested. His second set of patches
are still being tested, so I plan to hold them until the next merge
window, after we have more weeks of testing. The first patch
eliminates the flush_delayed_work, which can block.
- Andreas's second patch protects setting of gl_object for rgrps with
a spin_lock to prevent proven races.
- His third patch introduces a centralized mechanism for queueing
glock work with better reference counting, to prevent more races.
-His fourth patch retains a reference to inode glocks when an error
occurs while creating an inode. This keeps the subsequent evict
from needing to reacquire the glock, which might call into DLM and
block in low memory conditions.
- Arvind Yadav has a patch to add const to attribute_group
structures.
- I have a patch to detect directory entry inconsistencies and
withdraw the file system if any are found. Better that than silent
corruption.
- I have a patch to remove a vestigial variable from glock
structures, saving some slab space.
- I have another patch to remove a vestigial variable from the GFS2
in-core superblock structure"
* tag 'gfs2-4.13.fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gfs2/linux-gfs2:
GFS2: constify attribute_group structures.
gfs2: gfs2_create_inode: Keep glock across iput
gfs2: Clean up glock work enqueuing
gfs2: Protect gl->gl_object by spin lock
gfs2: Get rid of flush_delayed_work in gfs2_evict_inode
GFS2: Eliminate vestigial sd_log_flush_wrapped
GFS2: Remove gl_list from glock structure
GFS2: Withdraw when directory entry inconsistencies are detected
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