Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Feb 2002 13:12:08 +0300 | From | Andrey Panin <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] remove unneeded inode semaphores from driverfs |
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On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 12:59:53AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 11:59:46AM +0300, Andrey Panin wrote: > > Hi, > > > > __remove_file() in driverfs/inode.c calls down(&dentry->d_inode->i_sem) > > before calling vfs_unlink(dentry->d_parent->d_inode,dentry) which > > tries to claim the same semaphore causing the livelock. > > driverfs_remove_dir() makes the same calling vfs_rmdir(). > > What kernel version did you generate this patch for? This patch doesn't > apply at all to 2.5.5, and it looks like this problem is already fixed.
It's against 2.5.5-pre1, I was out of the net for some days and couldn't check final 2.5.5.
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