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    [XFS] extend completions to provide XFS object flush requirements · 39d2f1ab
    David Chinner authored
    XFS object flushing doesn't quite match existing completion semantics.  It
    mixed exclusive access with completion.  That is, we need to mark an object as
    being flushed before flushing it to disk, and then block any other attempt to
    flush it until the completion occurs.  We do this but adding an extra count to
    the completion before we start using them.  However, we still need to
    determine if there is a completion in progress, and allow no-blocking attempts
    fo completions to decrement the count.
    
    To do this we introduce:
    
    int try_wait_for_completion(struct completion *x)
    	returns a failure status if done == 0, otherwise decrements done
    	to zero and returns a "started" status. This is provided
    	to allow counted completions to begin safely while holding
    	object locks in inverted order.
    
    int completion_done(struct completion *x)
    	returns 1 if there is no waiter, 0 if there is a waiter
    	(i.e. a completion in progress).
    
    This replaces the use of semaphores for providing this exclusion
    and completion mechanism.
    
    SGI-PV: 981498
    
    SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:31816a
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
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