Revision 7ce9d5d1f3c8736511daa413c64985a05b2feee3 authored by Eric Sandeen on 04 March 2009, 23:38:18 UTC, committed by Theodore Ts'o on 04 March 2009, 23:38:18 UTC
I was seeing fsck errors on inode bitmaps after a 4 thread
dbench run on a 4 cpu machine:

Inode bitmap differences: -50736 -(50752--50753) etc...

I believe that this is because ext4_free_inode() uses atomic
bitops, and although ext4_new_inode() *used* to also use atomic 
bitops for synchronization, commit 
393418676a7602e1d7d3f6e560159c65c8cbd50e changed this to use
the sb_bgl_lock, so that we could also synchronize against
read_inode_bitmap and initialization of uninit inode tables.

However, that change left ext4_free_inode using atomic bitops,
which I think leaves no synchronization between setting & 
unsetting bits in the inode table.

The below patch fixes it for me, although I wonder if we're 
getting at all heavy-handed with this spinlock...

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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timer.h
#ifndef __H8300_TIMER_H
#define __H8300_TIMER_H

void h8300_timer_tick(void);
void h8300_timer_setup(void);
void h8300_gettod(unsigned int *year, unsigned int *mon, unsigned int *day,
		   unsigned int *hour, unsigned int *min, unsigned int *sec);

#define TIMER_FREQ (CONFIG_CPU_CLOCK*10000) /* Timer input freq. */

#define calc_param(cnt, div, rate, limit)			\
do {								\
	cnt = TIMER_FREQ / HZ;					\
	for (div = 0; div < ARRAY_SIZE(divide_rate); div++) {	\
		if (rate[div] == 0)				\
			continue;				\
		if ((cnt / rate[div]) > limit)			\
			break;					\
	}							\
	if (div == ARRAY_SIZE(divide_rate))			\
		panic("Timer counter overflow");		\
	cnt /= divide_rate[div];				\
} while(0)

#endif
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