Messages in this thread | | | From | Kevin Corry <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] lockfs patch for 2.6 | Date | Thu, 1 Apr 2004 16:32:48 -0600 |
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On Thursday 01 April 2004 2:35 pm, Chris Mason wrote: > On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 05:25, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 10:23:31AM -0500, Chris Mason wrote: > > > > P.S. this patch now kills 16 lines of kernel code summarized :) > > > > > > It looks good, I'll give it a try. > > > > ping? I've seen you merged the old patch into the suse tree, and having > > shipping distros with incompatible APIs doesn't sound exactly like a good > > idea.. > > Christoph's vfs patch looks good, I've stripped out the XFS bits (FS > parts should probably be in different patches) and made one small > change. freeze/thaw now check to make sure bdev != NULL. > > On the device mapper side, I had to add a struct super_block pointer to > the dm struct and changed it to pin the bdev struct during the freeze. > Before, it could go away due to bdput, leading to deadlock when someone > else got a bdev struct with bd_mount_sem held. > > New patches attached, along with an incremental to clearly show my > changes to the dm patch. > > -chris
Thanks Chris! I'll test the new VFS-lock code in the morning.
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