Merge branch 'linus' into x86/pebstip-x86-pebs-2008-06-25_10.32_Wed

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.h b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.h
index 841d7883528d..f948ec7ba9a4 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.h
+++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.h
@@ -66,6 +66,25 @@ typedef enum {
 	_XBF_PAGES = (1 << 18),	    /* backed by refcounted pages	   */
 	_XBF_RUN_QUEUES = (1 << 19),/* run block device task queue	   */
 	_XBF_DELWRI_Q = (1 << 21),   /* buffer on delwri queue		   */
+
+	/*
+	 * Special flag for supporting metadata blocks smaller than a FSB.
+	 *
+	 * In this case we can have multiple xfs_buf_t on a single page and
+	 * need to lock out concurrent xfs_buf_t readers as they only
+	 * serialise access to the buffer.
+	 *
+	 * If the FSB size >= PAGE_CACHE_SIZE case, we have no serialisation
+	 * between reads of the page. Hence we can have one thread read the
+	 * page and modify it, but then race with another thread that thinks
+	 * the page is not up-to-date and hence reads it again.
+	 *
+	 * The result is that the first modifcation to the page is lost.
+	 * This sort of AGF/AGI reading race can happen when unlinking inodes
+	 * that require truncation and results in the AGI unlinked list
+	 * modifications being lost.
+	 */
+	_XBF_PAGE_LOCKED = (1 << 22),
 } xfs_buf_flags_t;
 
 typedef enum {