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authorRichard Yao <[email protected]>2012-07-23 11:39:25 -0700
committerBrian Behlendorf <[email protected]>2012-07-23 12:29:36 -0700
commit739a1a82e0f366923e8d9bc8f9ad4b1c680a780b (patch)
tree33d846b16ea8ddaf39bb77a8658e63d640794fee /config/kernel-clear-inode.m4
parentea1fdf46e2d37e9eb048f9add0fb06e77e9ee6e2 (diff)
Linux 3.5 compat, end_writeback() changed to clear_inode()
The end_writeback() function was changed by moving the call to inode_sync_wait() earlier in to evict(). This effecitvely changes the ordering of the sync but it does not impact the details of the zfs implementation. However, as part of this change end_writeback() was renamed to clear_inode() to reflect the new semantics. This change does impact us and clear_inode() now maps to end_writeback() for kernels prior to 3.5. Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <[email protected]> Closes #784
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+dnl #
+dnl # 3.5.0 API change
+dnl # torvalds/linux@dbd5768f87ff6fb0a4fe09c4d7b6c4a24de99430 and
+dnl # torvalds/linux@7994e6f7254354e03028a11f98a27bd67dace9f1 reworked
+dnl # where inode_sync_wait() is called.
+dnl #
+dnl # Prior to these changes it would occur in end_writeback() but due
+dnl # to various issues (described in the above commits) it has been
+dnl # moved to evict(). This changes the ordering is which sync occurs
+dnl # but otherwise doesn't impact the zpl implementation.
+dnl #
+dnl # The major impact here is the renaming of end_writeback() to
+dnl # clear_inode(). However, care must be taken when detecting this
+dnl # API change because as recently as 2.6.35 there was a clear_inode()
+dnl # function. However, it was made obsolete by the evict_inode() API
+dnl # change at the same time.
+dnl #
+dnl # Therefore, to ensure we have the correct API we only allow the
+dnl # clear_inode() compatibility code to be defined iff the evict_inode()
+dnl # functionality is also detected.
+dnl #
+AC_DEFUN([ZFS_AC_KERNEL_CLEAR_INODE], [
+ ZFS_CHECK_SYMBOL_EXPORT(
+ [clear_inode],
+ [fs/inode.c],
+ [AC_DEFINE(HAVE_CLEAR_INODE, 1,
+ [clear_inode() is available])],
+ [])
+])