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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iga.h
/* $Id: iga.h,v 1.2 1999/09/11 22:56:31 zaitcev Exp $
 * iga1682.h: Sparc/PCI iga1682 driver constants etc.
 *
 * Copyleft 1998 V. Roganov and G. Raiko
 */

#ifndef _IGA1682_H
#define _IGA1682_H 1

#define IGA_ATTR_CTL			0x3C0
#define   IGA_IDX_VGA_OVERSCAN		0x11
#define DAC_W_INDEX                     0x03C8
#define DAC_DATA                        0x03C9
#define IGA_EXT_CNTRL                   0x3CE
#define   IGA_IDX_EXT_BUS_CNTL          0x30
#define     MEM_SIZE_ALIAS              0x3
#define     MEM_SIZE_1M                 0x0
#define     MEM_SIZE_2M                 0x1
#define     MEM_SIZE_4M                 0x2
#define     MEM_SIZE_RESERVED           0x3
#define   IGA_IDX_OVERSCAN_COLOR        0x58
#define   IGA_IDX_EXT_MEM_2             0x72

#endif /* !(_IGA1682_H) */
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