nilfs2: avoid double error caused by nilfs_transaction_end

Pekka Enberg pointed out that double error handlings found after
nilfs_transaction_end() can be avoided by separating abort operation:

 OK, I don't understand this. The only way nilfs_transaction_end() can
 fail is if we have NILFS_TI_SYNC set and we fail to construct the
 segment. But why do we want to construct a segment if we don't commit?

 I guess what I'm asking is why don't we have a separate
 nilfs_transaction_abort() function that can't fail for the erroneous
 case to avoid this double error value tracking thing?

This does the separation and renames nilfs_transaction_end() to
nilfs_transaction_commit() for clarification.

Since, some calls of these functions were used just for exclusion control
against the segment constructor, they are replaced with semaphore
operations.

Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
Ryusuke Konishi
2009-04-06 19:01:45 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent a2e7d2df82
commit 47420c7998
7 changed files with 135 additions and 75 deletions

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@@ -123,7 +123,10 @@ static int nilfs_mdt_create_block(struct inode *inode, unsigned long block,
brelse(bh);
failed_unlock:
nilfs_transaction_end(sb, !err);
if (likely(!err))
err = nilfs_transaction_commit(sb);
else
nilfs_transaction_abort(sb);
if (writer)
nilfs_put_writer(nilfs);
out: