tree 70639084b6a04ce428cecbaa5fa30c2d71d5ff33
parent 7cb7beb31aa3d941833b6a6e553687422c31e4b6
author Alan D. Brunelle <alan.brunelle@hp.com> 1249660868 -0400
committer Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> 1250095808 +0200

Remove double removal of blktrace directory

commit fd51d251e4cdb21f68e9dbc4336514d64a105a79
Author: Stefan Raspl <raspl@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:   Tue May 19 09:59:08 2009 +0200

    blktrace: remove debugfs entries on bad path

added in an explicit invocation of debugfs_remove for bt->dir, in
blk_remove_buf_file_callback we are also getting the directory removed. On
occasion I am seeing memory corruption that I have bisected down to
this commit. [The testing involves a (long) series of I/O benchmarks
with blktrace invoked around the actual runs.] I believe that this
committed patch is correct, but the problem actually lies in the code
in blk_remove_buf_file_callback.

With this patch I am able to consistently get complete runs whereas
previously I could not get a single run to complete.

The first part of the patch simply moves the debugfs_remove below the
relay_close: the relay_close call will remove files under bt->dir, and
so we should not remove the directory until all the files we created
have been removed. (Note: This is not sufficient to fix the problem -
the file system code has ref counts on the directoy, so our invocation
does not cause the directory to actually be removed. Nonetheless, we
should not rely upon that feature.)

Signed-off-by: Alan D. Brunelle <alan.brunelle@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>